Word: harold
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...TIME began the week with well-laid plans for a cover story on the winner of the British election. While covering both sides right down to the ballot box, the London Bureau weighed in 48 hours before the polls opened with a firm judgment that Labor's Harold Wilson would win. In New York, the WORLD staff was inclined to agree, but with knowledge born of experience remained flexible and ready for a narrow victory by either side. It turned out to be a week when flexibility, always the journalist's best stance amid breaking news, was nothing...
Artist Bernard Safran's finely painted cover of Harold Wilson would have to give way, so it became a reduced black and white engraving, and joined photographs of the new Russian leaders and a picture of President Johnson taken as the news of the scandal was breaking-all four superimposed on the background of an atomic explosion...
Iowa: A reformed alcoholic who nonetheless put through a law allowing the sale of liquor by the drink, Democratic Governor Harold Hughes, 42, is popular, should win handily over Republican Evan ("Curly") Hultman, 39, state attorney general who backed William Scranton in San Francisco and has since been on the outs with Iowa's highly vocal Goldwaterite minority...
...through election night, Labor's jubilation mounted as its margin seemed to rise. When counting ended for the night, Harold Wilson's party was 67 seats ahead. But next day, as the delayed rural results came in, Labor's lead began to dwindle sharply. By noon it was down to 37. An hour later it was only 19. In the end, with 630 seats at stake, Labor had won 317, or a majority of only four. The Tories carried 304 constituencies, down 56. The minuscule Liberal Party had nine, up two from the last Parliament, and Liberal...
Personalities. The Tories suffered particularly painful embarrassment in the defeat of several of their Cabinet members: ex-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's son Maurice, who was Economic Secretary to the Treasury, lost in Halifax; Postmaster-General Reginald Bevins was beaten in Liverpool; Health Minister Anthony Barber fell at Doncaster; and Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Works, was defeated at Norwich. But Labor had a bad local setback too. Patrick Gordon Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians...