Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as the news tickers told him that Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was missing in a cruel sea, Lyndon Johnson knew that he would journey halfway round the world to say goodbye if his trusted friend and ally were not found alive. Holt and Australia had stood firm with Johnson on Viet Nam, and Johnson led 300 aides and newsmen in four jetliners 10,200 miles to honor him. For the President, who was genuinely saddened, the trip was of course much more than a re spectful condolence call. In just a few days' time, he focused world...
...Manila Conference 14 months ago. He conferred with South Viet Nam's President Thieu, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. He also saw British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...leisure hours, summer or winter, Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt was never far from the sea. Twenty-three months ago, when he first took office, newspapers all over the world ran pictures of the hardy, silver-haired Prime Minister wearing a rubber wet suit and carrying a spear gun. Holt fished from the rocks, body-surfed in the great Pacific waves that pound southern Australia's Mornington Peninsula, and spent hours with his wife, Zara, exploring rock pools, collecting shells and spearing fish. His greatest delight was snorkeling. "From the moment I put my head under...
...long as they were yoked to the same desperation effort, the factions in Britain's Labor Party could think of little else but saving the pound. Now, along with devaluation's bitter, month-long aftertaste, a paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said...
...crisis of authority was caused last week by an issue that Harold Wilson quickly grasped-if he did not pump it up on purpose-in order to reassert his party command. South Africa, it seemed, wanted to buy ?200 million worth of arms, and could Britain please forget its three-year-old support of the U.N. embargo to sell them? It appeared that there could scarcely be an easier way of uniting all Labor than giving it a chance to say no to the Vorster apartheid regime. But at least five ministers, led by Foreign Secretary George Brown, declined...