GREAT BRITAIN SEX & THE CLASS WAR THE PROFUMO SCANDAL WAS RE-EXAMINED 
LAST WEEK FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF APPLIED POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE 
CLASS WAR : PRIME MINISTER HAROLD MACMILLAN CANDIDLY ADMITTED TO THE 
DAILY EXPRESS THAT " THE YOUNG VOTER IS BORED WITH ME 
" AND THAT THE " YOUNG MINISTERS I PUT IN A 
YEAR AGO MAY WANT TO GET RID OF THE OLD GENTLEMAN 
AT THE TOP . " DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE SCANDAL, 
SAID MAC, IT WAS " TOUCH AND GO " FOR SEVERAL 
DAYS ON HIS " CHUCKING IT ALL IN . " ADDED 
MAC : " IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR MY WIFE 
AND LOYAL STAFF HERE, I DON'T THINK I COULD HAVE GOT 
THROUGH . BUT I SOON DECIDED THAT THERE WAS ONE ESSENTIAL 
DUTY TO PERFORM . I WAS DETERMINED THAT NO BRITISH GOVERNMENT 
SHOULD BE BROUGHT DOWN BY THE ACTION OF TWO TARTS . 
/ IN THE LETTERS COLUMN OF THE INTELLECTUAL, LEFTIST NEW STATESMAN, 
CHRISTINE KEELER AND MARILYN ( " MANDY " ) RICEDAVIES WERE 
BEING ANALYZED IN THE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT ROLE AS STANDARD BEARERS OF 
THE PROLETARIAT . " HERE WAS A SECTION OF WORKING-CLASS GIRLS 
BEING SOLD AS INSTRUMENTS TO SATISFY THE SEXUAL NEEDS OF THE 
UPPER CLASS, " WROTE MATHEMATICIAN HYMAN LEVY, " WHILE AT THE 
SAME TIME, THERE WERE NO UPPER-CLASS GIRLS BEING RECRUITED TO SATISFY 
THE SEXUAL NEEDS OF THE WORKING CLASS . " LEVY WAS 
IRONICALLY SECONDED BY TEACHER M . L . SWAN : " 
WITH A FEW FORTUNATE EXCEPTIONS GAMEKEEPERS AND OTHER COMRADES WHO HAVE 
INFILTRATED THE ENEMY'S CAMP WE ARE PREVENTED BY A GIGANTIC CLASS 
CONSPIRACY FROM ENJOYING THE DAUGHTERS OF OUR RULERS AND EMPLOYERS . 
IF THE PHRASE " EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY' IS TO BE MORE 
THAN A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN BRITAIN TODAY, THIS DISCRIMINATION MUST 
GO . " ARISTOCRATS ALREADY " OPEN THEIR HOUSES TO THE 
PUBLIC AT A SMALL CHARGE, " ADDED SWAN . IF THEY 
WANT TO PROVE THEIR INTEREST IN SOCIAL REFORM, THEY NEED ONLY 
CONSIDER " A SLIGHT EXTENSION OF THE SERVICES NORMALLY PROVIDED . 
WHICH LED THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE TO SWIFTLY HEADLINE ITS 
STORY : REGIME WON'T FALL, BRITON SAYS TARTLY . 