Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary George Brown told a hushed House of Commons, was "to prevent confrontation from bursting into conflagration." But whether the gamble would succeed depended on which would be exhausted first-the diplomatic alternatives to war or the patience of the edgy antagonists. "Time," said Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson after an urgent meeting in Washington with Lyndon Johnson, "is not on our side...
...idea of backing their principles with some punch, the U.S. and Britain may have to act on their own. Otherwise, Israel surely will move to break the blockade-not in a matter of months or years but, as Eban warned, days or weeks. And once Israel moves, as Harold Wilson said in Washington, "a much wider conflagration might be only a matter of hours...
...chemical engineering; Frank Ryan of the Cleveland Browns already has his Ph.D. (his dissertation: "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc"), and during the off season he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology. Coach Harold Laycoe of the Portland, Ore., Buckaroos says with wonderment: "We even have a sprinkling of college graduates in pro hockey now. When I broke in, in 1945, there was a sprinkling of players who had completed grade twelve...
President Lyndon Johnson went to Canada to talk over the situation with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, after appearing on nationwide TV to warn that the situation was potentially disastrous. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a visit to Washington because of the crisis, but Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched...
...Debris. Orbiter 4 was even more informative. Its overhead and closeup picture of the Humboldt Crater-located at the right edge of the visible face of the moon and difficult to see through terrestrial telescopes-suggested to Astrogeologist Harold Masursky that the crater is "very young" geologically and was probably created by the impact of a meteorite only a few million years ago. The event was so recent, Masursky believes, that the floor of Humboldt is still gradually rising. This "isostatic rebound," as he calls it, has produced an obvious fracture in the crater floor-evident for the first time...