Heading toward the Oct. 15 balloting, Britain's election campaign was hotting up last weekand so were the candidates, frequently egged on by hecklers. In Lancashire, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in fact, took a live egg square between the shoulder blades, and was booed down by sign-waving youths (WHO EXHUMED YOU?) in Birmingham. He got so riled trying to make himself heard in suburban London that he snapped: "I don't mind opposition, but I'm not prepared for people who won't listen."
Deputy Labor Leader George Brown had to run a gantlet through Wellingborough public schoolboys with Tory leaflets stuck in...
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