Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter, pits the strength of five men v. the power of one woman. Who conquers and exploits whom is the question. The answer depends on each man's interpretation. The Royal Shakespeare Company's production, directed by Peter Hall, is properly tense and intense...
...beacons flashing, crash trucks and ambulances waited alongside the runway at London's Heathrow Airport last week as Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned from his sixth and last explora tory mission to the Common Market countries. The pilot of the R.A.F. Comet had heard a suspicious thump as the plane climbed out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport and, fearing a blown-out nose tire, had radioed ahead for emergency help. It was not needed. The plane touched down in a perfect landing, with only the adhering feathers of a Luxembourgian Redwing to show for the scare...
Popular Decision. Harold Wilson must hope that he can land Britain in the Common Market half so easily. Despite some bumps and thumps from his own Laborite Redwingers and a few Tories, Wilson is preparing to make the attempt. "We must not lose the momentum which has been created," he told Commons after returning from Luxembourg. He promised to make the "momentous decision" to apply for membership by about May 1. The decision will be popular; Britain is remarkably united in favor of entry. A sampling of British manufacturers, for example, showed 91% in favor of joining up. Though Britain...
...depend upon a scholar's ability to probe and publish-which in turn often depends upon his ability to unearth research grants. "You need the federal loot to do the research to do the book to get the loot," says Stephen Trachtenberg, an assistant to U.S. Education Commissioner Harold Howe. "Research aid comes too easily to the researchers," adds Engineering Science Professor Samuel Silver of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. "We've come to expect...
Soft Approach. Equally upset was 79-year-old Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment...