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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter. A man whose birthday it is not finds himseIf the guest of honor at its celebration and behaves as if he were a corpse at his own wake. Which well might be the case. The early Pinter puzzler is brought to the Broadway stage with an American cast
...balance, nonetheless, McNamara's accomplishments must rank as historic, while his mistakes seem ephemeral by comparison. The generals themselves recognize that nothing like McNamara has ever happened to the Pentagon, or is likely to again very soon. "He is the only one," says Army Chief of Staff Harold Johnson, "who has ever...
Around Vance swirls a galaxy of other potential successors. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, 40, a latter-day McNamara "whiz kid," headed Pentagon research and engineering during such McNamaran renovations as the MBT battle tank, the C5A air transport, and the Minuteman II ballistic missile. The current Deputy Secretary, Paul Nitze, 60, is a capable aide but perhaps too old. Johnson might also reach far afield for a successor, tapping such a respected private-sector servant as Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 54, board chairman of Litton Industries and one of the original World War II whiz kids...
...devaluation of the pound was followed by the equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots...
Secret Talks. Britain's third devaluation in 36 years was cannily crafted to cause a minimum of commotion throughout the free world. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government carefully scaled the size of its move to produce a small response. Anything more than a 15% devaluation, the British were warned in the delicate, secret negotiations that preceded it, would have impelled France, Belgium and The Netherlands to mark down their money in retaliation. Had that occurred, the resulting chain of devaluations might have ripped the world's monetary system apart, and perhaps even caused a prosperity...