Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Frank Haggerty was the winner of the Rand Hurdling Award for the second straight year. Ron Wilson won the Carver Weight and Hammer Award, also for the second time in two years...
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...
Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...board of directors is unopposed, the offer is most likely to be accepted; the steel company will probably become the biggest single unit in a conglomerate that already includes such divisions as Wilson meats, sporting goods and chemicals, Okonite cable and floor coverings, airplane, missile and electronics manufacturing and, since last February, Braniff Airlines and National Car Rental...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...