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...financier and politician-who died last week at age 62 after a prolonged and painful bout with what is suspected to have been multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the world's leaders, including Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Duke of Edinburgh, flew to Paris to pay him final tribute. There, in the Gothic splendor of Notre Dame Cathedral, Francois Cardinal Marty, Archbishop of Paris, celebrated the memorial...
Belfast businessmen demanded an immediate response from Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees. "You are to blame for all this!" yelled an embittered woman as Rees made his first official visit to Bel fast to inspect the damage. Most infuriated were hard-line Ulster Protestants, who feel that the new Labor Government is concentrating too much on a political solution and not enough on a military one. Shouted one irate Protestant as Rees clambered about the debris on Royal Avenue: "Root them out! That's what you must...
During the recent electoral campaign, Harold Wilson's Laborites got considerable political mileage from the charge that Tories had allowed land speculators to amass huge fortunes. Last week stories in two pro-Tory newspapers, the Daily Express and the tabloid Daily Mail, suggested that close associates of Wilson were speculators themselves. The papers also recounted various incidents in which the associates reportedly linked the new Prime Minister's name last year to a series of transactions that were to earn them a $1,860,000 profit on 95 acres of land that they had bought between...
Married. Theodore Harold White, 58, veteran journalist and author of the four bestselling Making of the President volumes; and Beatrice Kevitt Hofstadter, 50, historian and widow of Richard Hofstadter, one of the greatest American history scholars of his generation; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...
...Give You Anything But Love (1928), the Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight (1936) and hundreds of other popular songs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During her career of nearly a half-century, Fields collaborated with such composers as Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. With her brother Herbert she wrote the books for the Broadway hits Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Redhead...