Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert, 53, resigned, giving way to Harold Brown, 37, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, a Ph.D. in physics and one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's original Pentagon whiz kids...
...never had any reply." Even the intentional five-day lull in U.S. bombing last May failed to draw a response from intransigent North Viet Nam. Britain's Commonwealth peace mission has not got very far either. Last week, after pondering Hanoi's rebuff of the mission, Harold Wilson gamely sent a low-level British official off to Hanoi on a "private" visit, apparently hoping to get Ho to change his mind. Few held out hope that Ho would...
...nine uneasy months since the Labor government came to power, Britain has lived in day-to-day expectation of another general election. Last week Prime Minister Harold Wilson ended the suspense. "I do not believe," he pronounced, "that the British people want an election." At any rate, Harold Wilson no longer wants one-this year...
...months have galvanized the Opposition. Party Chairman Edward Du Cann, 41, a new Tory dark horse who had a brilliant career as a financial prodigy before turning to politics, has streamlined the Conservatives' campaign machinery, fattened their treasury for battle, and democratized the invidious, invisible ritual by which Harold Macmillan established the 14th Earl of Home as his successor in 1963. Tory strategists, busily updating party policy on every issue from foreign policy to tax reform, will soon have an election manifesto at the ready...
...years ago, a University of Pittsburgh trustee asked Pitt's Chancellor Edward Harold Litchfield: "Edward, don't you have enough balls up in the air now?" Replied Litchfield, who was running a $100 million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled...