Word: harold
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...development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also took on a new Air Force secretary, New York-born Physicist Harold Brown, 38, who succeeds retiring Eugene Zuckert. A brilliant McNamara protege who has been directing the Pentagon's research and engineering program, Brown is reputed to be the one man who can stump the boss...
...farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear gas. In London the idea of restoring colonial control was repugnant to a Labor government. But back to colonialism went Prime Minister Harold Wilson. As one official put it: "Damned to Nasser. Our aim is independence for South Arabia in 1968, Nasser...
...Labor Party gathered for its annual conference at Blackpool last week, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was dealing from strength in some respects. The latest National Opinion Poll showed the Labor Party once again leading the Conservative in popularity by a margin of 3.9% , after having trailed the Tories for most of the summer. The shaky pound had momentarily rallied to its highest exchange rate in 15 months, reflecting the first surplus balance of payments in two years. Wilson, however, found his greatest strength in his party's own weakness. With his parliamentary majority down to only two seats...
...most disturbed by Los Angeles' race riot this summer was Pope Paul VI; the tragedy of Watts moved him to hasten a decision to appoint an American Negro bishop. Last week, on the eve of his historic flight to New York, Pope Paul announced his choice: the Rev. Harold R. Perry, 48, superior of the Southern province of the Society of the Divine Word. Perry's post: auxiliary bishop of New Orleans. Announcing the appointment, New Orleans' Archbishop Philip Hannan-himself raised to that position only three days earlier-said warmly, "We welcome the first American-born...
...well. One of six children, he was born the son of a rice-mill worker in segregationist Lake Charles, La. The family spoke French at home, and although the parents never got to high school, all six children attended college; one brother became a surgeon, two of them dentists. Harold Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop John P. Cody, Rummel's successor...