Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. In the second volume of his memoirs, the former Prime Minister again shows himself a man of generous mind and literary ability as he tells of his role in England's wartime government...
Last week those plans lay in shreds. Aiming to slash $2.4 billion from his government's budget as a necessary sequel to devaluation, Prime Minister Harold Wilson dispatched aides around the globe to tell his allies of new and faster military pullbacks - moves that would ring down the curtain on Britain as a major armed power of the world. Unless the plans are modified in last-minute Cabinet debate before he submits the new budget to Parliament this week, all but token numbers of Britain's military, the builder of its empire and binder of its commonwealth, will...
...whole process was bitter medicine for Britain, and Harold Wilson could offer little good news with which to sugar-coat it. December, the first full month after devaluation, brought a balance of payments deficit of $168 million, the third highest monthly total of the year...
...Chairman-President Harold Geneen, who had hoped to fashion the two firms into a $2.5 billion telecommunications colossus, the decision was largely a matter of money. Announced in December 1965, the merger has been held up by Justice Department antitrust litigation after being twice approved by the Federal Communications Commission. During the delay, a sharp increase in ITT's stock sent its purchase price for ABC soaring...
...Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...