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Though he had more or less pooh-poohed Edward Heath's prophecies of economic doom during the election campaign, Prime Minister Harold Wilson managed to sound almost like an echo of his defeated Conservative opponent last week. Wilson told Britons that they "cannot look forward over the next two years or more to any general increase in living standards." He had derided Heath's call for a government of national unity to fight recession and inflation, but now after his fourth national victory, Wilson repeated Heath's appeal for national solidarity in Britain's "gravest crisis...
...Forward Harold Martin opened the scoring. After Felszegi's two tallies, James Wolf added the fourth goal. There was no scoring in the second half, as the freshman team's substitutes saw extensive action...
...Harold B. Conrad, a University employee, was convicted yesterday of destruction of real estate property in Brighton District Court. The Court ordered him to pay $187.50 to the University for damages he caused to a goal-post in Webster Field next to the Stadium...
Wild Gambles. By 1970 Franklin was beginning to suffer steadily declining operating earnings. Last May the situation had become so bad that its managers concluded that the only way the bank could survive was through a merger. Then Chairman Harold Gleason got devastating news: Franklin had lost some $39 million because of un authorized trading in foreign currencies...
...There is no one in British history more experienced in small majorities than myself." So said Harold Wilson last week as he watched the results of Britain's second general election in less than eight months. Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority-319 seats in the House of Commons, or two more than half of the total-and the smallest popular vote (39.3%) for any majority government in Britain's history...