Word: wilson
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From Brussels, Nixon went on to London, where he drove with Prime Minister Harold Wilson past small cheering crowds in roadside villages to Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, for dinner before returning to his suite at Claridge's. Though Nixon and Wilson had met before, this was their first get-together as President and Prime Minister, and the two got on very well. They are similar in many ways: both are rather homely in looks and style, solid and well-disciplined men, who attain and exercise power by organization and tenacity rather than brilliance or charisma. "The personal chemistry is working...
...eleven hours of discussions, characterized by what a British spokesman called "plain dealing," Nixon and Wilson reviewed the problems facing the two nations-with special attention to the necessity of avoiding further challenges to the dollar and the pound. During his visit, Nixon also met with Conservative Leader Edward Heath and Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe, received former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is an old friend from the Eisenhower days, and sat with groups of businessmen, labor and youth leaders, educators and editors. The British are tough judges, but they were taken with their visitor. Said one official who talked...
...lawyer, Schoolboy Freeman was converted to socialism by the sight of Depression hunger marchers in 1931. As a young Member of Parliament, he was spotted as a comer by no less a judge than Winston Churchill. But in 1951, he joined another ambitious young Laborite named Harold Wilson in resigning noisily from the socialist administration to protest Britain's rocketing defense spending. In 1955, disenchanted with active politics, he quit the Commons for journalism...
Good Subject. A decade later, Prime Minister Wilson turned to Old Comrade Freeman to be Britain's High Commissioner (ambassador) in India, where embroilment in India's quarrels with Pakistan seemed unavoidable, but where, as a diplomatic greenhorn, Freeman often found it advisable to lie low. The New Statesman's immense prestige among Indian intellectuals boosted the personal popularity of its former editor, and Freeman's vivacious dark-haired third wife, Catherine, won praise for her relief work in famine-ravaged Bihar...
Carol Burnett repeatedly gets her teeth into the problem with guests like Flip Wilson on her CBS variety show. Flip, during one segment, complained of his wife's cuisine. "She cooks like an extremist-burn, baby, burn." Another week, Carol spoofed TV's own new cliche characterization of what some blacks refer to as "Supernegro." Opening the door of her home to find a young, leather-jacketed black (Charles Moore), she chirped: "Why, it's a good-looking young Negro. Now don't tell me. I'll bet you're a doctor, a lawyer...