Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause until after Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Moscow this month...
...determination to chase Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith back into his hole, Britain's Harold Wilson came up with another assortment of sanctions...
...Tory, "kicking its captain in the middle of the game." Yet that is exactly what has been happening to Conservative Leader Ted Heath. Busy shielding his shins from Tory toes, he has been unable to mount a forceful attack on the Opposition's real opposition, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's ruling Laborites. But last week Heath finally kicked back. When his shadow minister for colonial affairs, dapper, dagger-tongued Angus Maude, wrote in the Spectator that "the Opposition has become a meaningless irrelevance," Heath called him on the carpet of his West End bachelor flat. When Maude emerged...
Inborn Defects. The first suggestion that finger and palm prints might be associated with disease came only 30 years ago, almost half a century after Sir Francis Gallon linked them with genetics, and helped to lay the foundations of a science now called dermatoglyphics. Dr. Harold Cummins of Tulane University noted a distinctive pattern in victims of mongolism (Down's syndrome). Another Tulane team, led by Dr. Alfred R. Hale, showed that many patients with inborn heart defects had palm-ridge abnormalities, whereas those with heart disease or disorders acquired after birth usually had normal prints...
...dressed city in Europe; saddlemakers and Savile Row tailors are backlogged with orders, and the average Briton feels that he is doing better than all right. Yet the island suffers from overfull employment (jobless rate: 1.4%), spiraling wages and sluggish productivity. To battle inflation and spur exports, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has sought to deflate domestic consumption by raising taxes and restricting credit. In 1965 the pound was thus defended and strengthened, and the trade gap was drastically pruned. Economic growth, however, dropped from 5.4% to 2.3%, and this year's prospect is for 2% or less. Though Britain...