Word: harold
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Last month the Tories were all set to pounce on the Labor government with a motion in the House of Commons to censure the drastic and controversial measures of Harold Wilson's first 100 days. Out of respect for the dying Winston Churchill, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his fellow Tories held their tongues. By last week, when the debate finally came, both sides were fairly bursting to get at each other's throats...
Missing from the House last week were two familiar figures, both former Foreign Secretaries. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet...
...cooperation, so as to play, in conjunction with America, her daughter, the role that falls to her in the progress of 2 billion men." A united Europe would have to include Britain too, and De Gaulle indicated his desire for better relations with London by announcing that Prime Minister Harold Wilson might soon be coming to Paris "to deal with all the problems common to our two great countries...
...Harold C. Martin, lecturer on Comparative Literature and director of Gen Ed Ahf for the last thirteen years, has been appointed president of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., it was announced yesterday...
...Harold Rosenwald '27, general counsel for the HSA, conceded last night that some of the students' points were "reasonably legitimate." He said however, that the HSA had always "assumed" that the CAB had no jurisdiction over foreign airlines, which provide all the HSA's planes for transatlantic flights...