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Before anything else, Pearson wanted to get in visits with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy. The White House was already at work on an agenda: nuclear weapons; the Columbia River power impasse; Canada's prospective role in the Organization of American States, which Pearson believes his nation should join. Along with this, he was immersed in plans for his "60 days of decision." Asked when they would begin, Pearson shot back without hesitation: "When I take over...
Whatever their real object, the "spies for peace" triggered a full-scale Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary...
...terms such as "strangeness" cropped up to describe mathematically the way these new unstable particles differ from the old familiar ones. Some of the new particles were called "resonances," a term that describes familiar particles temporarily bound together. "There was a sense of uneasiness," says Czech-born California Physicist Harold Ticho. "We were turning up a mess of disconnected beasts which seemed to have no relation to any theory of nature...
...Party M.P. since 1951 and a lifelong socialist who for 17 years pursued a career as a top business-side executive for Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, then left in 1948 to enter politics and become an antinuclear, anti-Common Market leader of the Labor wing that recently made Harold Wilson party chief; of a stroke; in Manhattan. "I've done well under the capitalist system," he once said, "but I loathe all it represents...
Past lecturers have included Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Luis Munoz Marin, the late Hugh Gaitskell, Chester Bowles, Adlai E. Stevenson, Gen. Lucius Clay, Harold Stassen, Walter Lippmann, and Robert Moses...