Word: harolde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group is headed by the Rev. Harold Fray Jr., Minister of the Eliot Congregational Church in Newton. It will be an affiliate of the National Emergency Clergy Committee, which has concerned itself with protesting the war in Vietnam...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...
...looked for a moment as if Harold Wilson were about to smother in a Yorkshire pudding of his own making. British political polls had recently recorded an erosion of support for Wilson's Labor government, and things were not improved by the usual irritants of winter. All in all, it was a bad time for a test at the ballot box, but Wilson had called a by-election in the Yorkshire seaport of Hull, where in 1964 the Labor candidate had won by a mere 1,181 votes. Should the Hull seat be lost to the Tories, Wilson...
...against the law. Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in Durban agreed. After a four-month trial, Magistrate M. E. Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense documents, arrested five defense witnesses-including a prison warden-thereby intimidating most...
...Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less. Chekhov? Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom were great in Ivanov. There was also a new Hamlet, starring a 24-year-old flash named David Warner. Also plays by two of Britain's most important newcomers, Harold Pinter and John Arden. And Sir Michael Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman in Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Also an updated satirical revue, Beyond the Fringe. Not to forget Sir Laurence Olivier in Congreve's Love for Love, as well as Alec McCowan and Siobhan McKenna...