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Beating Doors. Some losers lobbied hard for their jobs. Mizell paid a call on most of the Republican members of the Public Works Committee pleading his interest. Two dozen letters were sent to the White House on his behalf. Harold Froelich, 42, who lost his congressional seat in Wisconsin, rounded up no fewer than 155 supporters in the House who urged his appointment to the Elections Commission (he did not get the job). All things considered, the pressure on the White House to take care of the casualties could have been worse. "I was gearing up for an onslaught," said...
...yard dash--Edward James, Penn; Dave Meyer, Brown: Vince Redden. Cornell 60-yard hurdles--Harold Schawb, Penn. 600-yard run--Rich Nichols, Dartmouth: Pal Roach, Cornell: John Escaller, Brown, 1000-yard run--William Huntley, Penn; Ken Ashworth, Penn; John Stoeckel, Penn. Mile Run--Craig Masback, Princeton; Des Foynes, Columbia; Peter Christ, Penn. Two Mile Run--Dave Merrick, Penn; Ray DeMarco, Cornell; John Cabell, Princeton. One Mile Relay--Dartmouth (Bob Coburn, Joe Duncan, Rich Nichols, Ken Norman). Two Mile Relay--Cornell (Dave Stinson, Steve Braillier. Tom Patterson, Pal Roach). Weight Throw--Phil Bartlett, Brown: DANNY JIGGETTS, Harvard: STEVE NIEMI. Harvard. Shot...
...shortly after receiving his long-overdue knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Chaplin, who arrived for his investiture at Buckingham Palace clad in morning clothes and blue suede shoes, accepted his dubbing from a wheelchair, then retired to the Savoy Hotel to accept congratulations from Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other fans. "I was too dumbfounded to talk to the Queen," confessed Sir Charles later. Less awed was his daughter, Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 30, who came to London for the ceremonies with her son Shane. Since Shane was born out of wedlock two months ago, his citizenship...
Holmes maintained a wide range of correspondents, both American and foreign. He exchanged letters with such luminaries as the British economist Harold J. Laski and the brothers William and Henry James. An excerpt from hi travel diary dated May 26, 1866 reads: "...Then with them [Henry Adams and his family] to Gladstones...had quite a long talk with the Panjandrum G[ladstone] himself--whereat people stared. G in consideration of my wounds made me sit and I was a great...
Despite Prime Minister Harold Wilson's strong-arm tactics, most notably a stiffly worded warning that Labor Cabinet members and junior ministers could lose their jobs by not supporting the bill, 89 Laborites voted against it; 50 others avoided the confrontation by finding pressing business elsewhere. The Tories, however, predictably rallied to Her Maj esty's defense, and the measure passed by a 337- vote margin...