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Parker cited a recent Washington Post article that "showed a lot of people got into politics with McGovern," but that ended by comparing him to Harold Stessen, a perennial Presidential candidate...
...convenience, reacting day-to-day. Boston's press ignores critical issues below the surface of the campaign. The city is defining itself. King is the first Black with a shot at the mayoralty in Boston's history. The papers cover endorsements by out-of-town mayors Andrew Young and Harold Washington. They report dutifully when candidates pledge to fight racism. But this is Boston, after all, with its historic racial tensions...
...less volatile matters are now seen as the basis for building better relations. A decade ago, President Nixon's grandly symbolic visit to China presaged a new era. In 1979, under President Carter, the two countries established formal diplomatic ties. Shortly afterward, in January of 1980, Defense Secretary Harold Brown went to China with word that the U.S. was willing to export to Peking items of high technology, though not weapons. The Chinese were eager to buy and later presented the U.S. with a secret shopping list...
That night, the Auld Mug was unbolted from its pedestal at the New York Yacht Club's Manhattan mansion and taken to Newport by armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept...
...DIED. Harold K. Johnson, 71, stoic, tenacious Army Chief of Staff (1964-68); of cancer; in Washington. A survivor of the infamous Bataan death march, in which 8,150 prisoners of war perished on the Japanese-held Philippine island of Luzon during World War II, and a much decorated infantry commander in the Korean...