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During the 1964 parliamentary campaign, Harold Wilson grandly observed that "the Labor Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing." Those noble words came back to haunt Britain's Prime Minister last week as a public furor continued over newspaper reports that two close associates-his longtime secretary, Marcia Williams, and her brother Anthony Field, Wilson's frequent golfing partner and onetime office manager-had profited in a land speculation deal (TIME, April 15). There was nothing illegal about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge...
...keep the matter before the public for some time. Then there is a Scotland Yard investigation of an increasingly murky subplot involving Land Developer Ronald Milhench, 32. He has claimed that he received a letter discussing terms for the parcel that Field was trying to sell; at the bottom, Harold Wilson's signature was reportedly forged...
Quantity consumed is only one criterion-and not necessarily the decisive one. "We see little old ladies who drink less than a pint a day who are dying," says Harold Swift, of the Hazelden Foundation's model treatment facility in Minnesota. "Yet we see men who go through better than a fifth a day and still function well...
Sparked by Iowa's Senator Harold Hughes, who is himself a rehabilitated alcoholic, the Government has begun an expensive program to combat alcoholism through research, education and funding of local programs. Starting with $70 million in 1971, federal spending has now reached $194 million. Eighty-five percent of this amount is allotted to treatment, rehabilitation centers and halfway houses, many of which would no doubt still be only token efforts without substantial federal funding to the states...
Divorced. Harold Connolly, 42, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 41, both teachers and veteran Olympic athletes; after 17 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif. The Connollys met as gold medalists (he as a U.S. ham-merthrower, she as a Czechoslovak discus thrower) at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and provided the cold war love story of the year when they married and settled in the U.S. despite the protests of Czechoslovak authorities...