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Still months from post time, the 1972 Democratic presidential sweepstakes have already recorded a scratch, Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, and an unexpected dark-horse entry, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Assessing his chances recently, Harris noted that he must do well in the early primaries, then "get close to the top two in the polls." The top two by then? Ed Muskie, of course. And? "Scoop Jackson...
...Scott and Irwin edged farther down into the rille, Nobel Laureate Harold Urey, watching in Houston, nervously warned: "Don't get too close, fellows." Moments later, catching a foot on a rock, Scott took a headlong tumble and fell clumsily forward on his right arm and shoulder. Not until Scott was helped to his feet by Irwin and continued his jaunt did the world breathe easy. "This time," vowed the unhurt Scott, "I'll look and make sure I don't fall over some silly rock...
CHAPTER III: A cool rain is falling on Clydebank. Labor's ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives at 11:45 a.m. outside the iron gates at John Brown's yard. He is just in time for a warm welcome by shop stewards, a quick briefing on the takeover, and a noon lunch with the workers. He pumps hands with worried men in flat checked caps and tells one apprentice: "This is a grim time, lad." After a spot of tea and a puff on his pipe, Wilson climbs onto a chair and says: "I am here on behalf...
Near the end of every month, 100 top executives from the global empire of Harold S. Geneen, chairman and president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., gather in his Manhattan headquarters for one of the best-known staff meetings in the business world. In the near future, however, there could be a significant drop-off in attendance. At the behest of the Justice Department, ITT has agreed to divest itself of six important companies...
...films of Director Joseph Losey, truth is not so much disclosed as inflicted. His characters stagger under the impact of selfdiscovery; sometimes they are destroyed by it. Losey shares with Playwright Harold Pinter, one of his most frequent collaborators, a fascination with the surfaces of illusion, with the means by which people delude themselves, and with the mechanics of their inevitable undoing. In earlier Losey-Pinter films, the catalysts of doom were generally characters of a certain ambiguous authority, like the gentleman's gentleman in The Servant or the young girl at Oxford in Accident. In their new film...