Word: harold
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...article in yesterday's Boston, Globe, Boston-area schools currently have an extremely small number of Negro teachers. The Globe reported that Boston University has the greatest number of Negroes--15 in a full-time faculty of over 800. Harvard has only one tenured Negro faculty member: Harold Amos, Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at the Medical School...
...deep-rooted hostility many Britons still harbor toward their wartime enemies delayed the return engagement seven years, until German protocol officials had privately given up hope. Finally, last spring the Conservative government decided to find out whether the past was indeed past, and last fall incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson concurred. As Chancellor Ludwig Erhard put it, the royal visit was intended to be "the ultimate reconciliation which both our nations have sought...
Freedom & Peace. That night, at the state banquet at Augustusburg Castle, resplendent in a jewel-encrusted blue and white gown designed to match the baroque décor, she came out with a political plea, clearly dictated by Harold Wilson, in favor of West Germany's most popular principle. "In the last 20 years," she said, "the problems facing our two peoples have brought us closer together again. It is now our task to defend civilization in freedom and peace together. That is why we wholeheartedly support your natural wish for peaceful reunification...
...defined the English system as "government by discussion," and since his day, the teething ring of its rulers has been Oxford's debating society, the Oxford Union. In its hall, which is arranged along lines of the House of Commons, future Prime Ministers from William Ewart Gladstone to Harold Macmillan have honed their skills by debating everything from socialism to "Resolved: That in the opinion of this House, Columbus went too far." So respected is the Oxford Union that when in 1933 it resolved "That this House would not fight for King and Country," a storm of controversy swept...
...maintained that he opposed the defense of Britain but would be willing to bear arms "against the Rhodesians, South Africans or what have you." Guest Speaker Sir Richard Acland, 58, an ex-Labor M.P. who left the party because it was too conservative in 1955, sniffed that he considered Harold Wilson's administration capable of assessing the national peril "only if 50 million Siberian soldiers were climbing the cliffs of Dover in muffled boots...