Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside Attack. Labor's setback also brought out unexpected opposition to Harold Wilson's continuance as Prime Minister. Press Lord Cecil King, head of Britain's largest publishing empire and a Wilson supporter in the last two general elections, demanded that the Prime Minister resign. In a signed frontpage blast in the Daily Mirror, King wrote: "Wilson and his government have lost all credibility, all authority. We are now threatened with the greatest financial crisis in our history. It is not to be removed by lies about our gold-dollar reserves, but only by a fresh start...
...where his friends from New Frontier days consider him practically part of the clan. "He has a nice urbanity and a rather sardonic view of people and events," says Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Adds Economist John Kenneth Galbraith: "He has the savoir-faire, the savviness, the wisdom that Harold Macmillan had 25 years ago." Also like Macmillan, to whom he is related by marriage, Harlech has profited by a set of thoroughly gilt-edged circumstances. His father served for 28 years as a Tory M.P. and for two as Colonial Secretary, and his mother was a member of the legendary...
...Died. Harold L. Gray, 74, creator of little Orphan Annie, the oldest babe (44) in the comic-strip woods; of cancer; in San Diego, Calif. Moonfaced and round-eyed, gold of hair and heart sweet little Annie lived in a nether world of town bullies and murderous Russian spies, karate chops and megaton bombs. And for those readers who followed Annie's antics in some 400 papers and sometimes wondered how a nice girl could get into all that trouble. Harold Gray had a ready answer: "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it? Murder, rape and arson. That...
...reticent executive. Presiding over Pan Am's annual shareholders meeting, barely 24 hours after the airline's other top brass first got the word themselves, he casually dropped the news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand-picked successor as Pan Am's chairman and chief executive officer, began to praise him, Trippe abruptly ruled him out of order. Sighed Gray: "I seldom defy the boss...
...have a complex but a fate. Once analysis of motivation supplants action, the result is soporific drama, as exemplified this season by Anderson's I/ Never Sang for My Father and Chayefsky's The Latent Heterosexual. In contrast with the look-through transparency of these playwrights, Harold Pinter maintains a tantalizing and fascinating opacity in his characters. They are inexplicable and unpredictable as people in real life often...