Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vain, too, do they declare their loyalty to NATO; their assurances are spurned . . . The Norwegians are summoned to explain their conduct before a jury composed of such loyalists as Mr. Wilson and Herr Kiesinger. They reply by inviting President Johnson; he insists on a meeting with the entire Norwegian cabinet, known to contain some men open to pressure. Meanwhile, American soldiers stay in Norway for weeks after joint maneuvers are over. The world waits to see if the Marines will move...
...Christmas issue, the Economist portrayed Harold Wilson as a Santa Claus overjoyed because "I haven't got the sack." Other recent covers depicted Britain's "good and faithful" civil servants as so many goose eggs in bowler hats. To point up last week's summit meeting in Cierna, the Economist pictured Russia's Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia's Dubček exchanging chitchat while clapping perfunctorily at a public function. This week's cover on birth control is a portrait of Pope Paul sitting in lonely majesty against a black background. The caption: "What world...
Wilted Face. Two months later, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson approached Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in London with L.B.J.'s approval. The P.M. handed the Russian a note, prepared with the help of a White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...
Horstman expects a score of speakers to appear, with backgrounds in government, business, the universities, and the professions. He has commitments from, among others, Daniel Moynihan, Director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban studies, and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government at Harvard...
Among other Harvard teachers belonging to the group are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Sociology; James Q. Wilson, Professor of Government; and James Vorenberg, Professor...