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...voters' mood in Wisconsin this year remains unpredictable, oddly disengaged. "There is something sleeping, something going on under the surface in this state, and the candidates have not captured it yet," muses Harold Rohr, a painters'-union official in Madison. It is not apathy, reports TIME'S Gregory Wierzynski, "but something bordering on despair. People seem to suspect that the candidates are mere shadows-that if elected, they could not do much to change the rising prices, unemployment and heavy taxes." Says Mrs. Marguerite Wiegand, an Appleton housewife: "I watch television with a book in my hand...
Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, apprised in advance of Heath's plans, pledged "full support," ensuring swift passage in the Commons. But Ulster's eight Unionist Tory M.P.s declared their opposition...
...would suggest that, if integration is the ideal in academic departments, those departments at Harvard which still remain in white plains take steps to remove themselves from it immediately. Harold F. Cottman...
...Died. Harold J. ("Pie") Traynor, 72, former star third baseman and manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates; of emphysema; in Pittsburgh. Traynor joined the Pirates in 1920, and for the next 17 years his powerful hitting was matched only by his deft fielding at third base. He had a lifetime batting average of .320, drove in more runs than any other Pirate in history (1,273), and in 1948 was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. In 1969 U.S. sportswriters voted him the best third baseman in baseball history...
...Litchfield, Conn. Though she came to New York with hopes of a musical career, Grant's real talent was as a journalist. She joined the New York Times in 1912 and became the paper's first woman general assignment reporter. During World War I she met Harold Ross when he was a private working on Stars and Stripes. They married, then combined their resources to form The New Yorker. In 1921 she also helped organize the Lucy Stone League to demand, among other things, the legal right of married women to keep their maiden names. Grant herself followed...