Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caught in the middle of the argument and disturbed by growing U.S. losses over the North -eight planes and 13 flyers in a single day early this month -the Administration last week made a riposte. The U.S., said Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, is neither "undercommitted" nor "overcommitted" in the air war against the North, but precisely on target. As for any prolonged bombing pause to alter that balance, Secretary of State Rusk firmly ruled it out without some sort of reciprocal gesture on Hanoi's part. "We have told them many times that if they will tell...
...prisoner has no right of privacy. Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and recorded by Hartford's WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed, Travers sought $50,000 damages from the station and state officials for invasion of privacy. The facts might indeed have entitled a "full-fledged citizen" to sue, ruled U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld. But "no actionable invasion occurs if the subject of such publicity is a prisoner. A prisoner becomes...
...problem of not being "ordinary" and yet not seeming too aloof-of lowering the barrier between sovereign and subject and yet not "staining the mystery," as Sir Harold Nicolson put it-is probably the greatest public relations problem of Britain's royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove...
...drama were all that counted, the meeting that began last week between Harold Wilson of Britain and Ian Smith of rebellious Rhodesia would have been assured of success. The two men had not spoken to each other since November of last year, and the months since then were marked by Rhodesia's declaration of independence, British economic sanctions against Rhodesia and an air of general hostility. Then one stormy night last week, Wilson's R.A.F. Comet landed in Gibraltar, and two hours later an R.A.F. Britannia brought Smith in from Salisbury...
...declining, primarily because businessmen lack confidence in the economic future. Even Wilson's best friends have begun to tell him off. Last week the Socialist-leaning New Statesman called his deflationary policy "the most reactionary kind of bankers' philosophy," and asked rhetorically: "How long can we afford Harold Wilson...