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...Harold Kempner...
Tory newspapers bitterly attacked Harold Wilson's Labor government. In June, the government agreed to buy Court Line's shipbuilding interests for $37 million, and Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for Industry, assured Britons that the money should provide "reasonable security" to Court Line's other operations, "including the holidays booked for this summer." Believing him, many more would-be travelers signed up and paid for trips right through the night before Court Line closed its doors. The Conservative Party could hardly have composed a more spirited overture for the national election expected to be held...
...Critic Harold Rosenberg (he made the fourth group) once described intellectuals as a "herd of independent minds." That is largely true of the 70 leading intellectuals on Kadushin's list. Yet leading is precisely what contemporary intellectuals do not do much of. The record indicates that most of them followed black activists into the race issue and young antiwar militants into opposing the Viet Nam War. But then so did nearly everyone else who was not furious at being denied a job because of his color or threatened with having to fight a tainted...
...religious and political boundaries, all of them part of a small but growing spiritual renaissance in Washington. It involves both those who have been hoisted to power through Watergate and those who were toppled by it. Quie, for instance, also prays with a Monday morning group that includes Senator Harold Hughes, occasionally Senator Mark Hatfield, and-from January to July-Charles Colson. When Colson went off to prison last month to begin serving a one-to-three-year sentence for obstruction of justice, he carried with him three Bibles and the promise that his prayer-group fellows would keep...
...three retired or resigned U.S. bishops (the Rt. Revs. Robert L. De Witt, Daniel Corrigan and Edward R. Welles II) and the current bishop of Costa Rica, the Rt. Rev. J. Antonio Ramos, who participated in the ceremony only peripherally. One of the leaders of the attack was Bishop Harold B. Robinson of Western New York, who complained that the ordaining bishops' action was "a parallel to Nixon. These men have placed themselves above the law." Along with two colleagues, Robinson followed Episcopal statutory procedure and initiated charges against the three officiating bishops. The accusations: the trio had broken...