Word: harold
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...Great Britain arguing bitterly against each other in preparation for a national election. On the Conservative side the American business leaders talked with Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, Board of Trade President Edward Heath and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling; in Labor's camp they interviewed Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy George Brown...
...election last week in Luton, 30 miles northwest of London, voters elected a Labor M.P. for the first time in 13 years, turning the Tories' 1959 majority of 5,000 votes into a thumping 3,749-vote margin for Labor. The switch, pronounced Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson triumphantly, was clear proof that "the Conservative government has totally lost the confidence of the country...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
...Harold Pinter's "The Room" demands more polish than the Lowell House Drama Group gave it last weekend...
...keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World refused to publish an intemperate Churchill attack on Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson-whom Churchill described as "a barefoot dog"-Churchill had to pay a left-wing Labor weekly to carry the column...