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After consulting with Harold M. Proshansky, acting president and provost of CUNY's graduate division, Buttinger withdrew the collection from the City University in June...
...second most active member is Harold G. Evans, 42, a Postal Service clerk, who was elected deputy foreman by fellow members. Pregelj and Evans have asked about half of the questions posed by the jury. Others who have been active interlocutors include Lila Bard, 65, a retired Army officer; Enas Broadway, 62, an employee in the National Library of Medicine; George W. Stockton Sr., 55, a Defense Department supply technician; and Naomi R. Williams, 58, a retired teacher and elevator operator...
...majority in the last Parliament. The upstart Liberals got their biggest vote in history, but it converted into disproportionately few seats. Confronted with those agonizingly close results, Prime Minister Edward Heath advised Queen Elizabeth that, contrary to British custom, he would not resign in favor of Labor's Harold Wilson but would try to keep his embattled party in power by forming a new government...
Under the unwritten rules of the British constitution, Heath did not necessarily have to resign if the other party failed to get a majority. But Harold Wilson had historical precedent on his side in contending that it was his right to form the next government-indeed, never before in similar circumstances had a British Prime Minister refused to step down. As Heath sat silent in No.10 Downing Street, Wilson issued a terse statement from Labor headquarters a few blocks away. Underscoring the urgent need for a government that could deal promptly and decisively with the coal miners' strike...
...serving as navigator and radio operator, and then, leaving behind her new son Jon, embarks on a five-month flight in a pontooned Lockheed Sirius to explore air routes over the Atlantic. Scattered among the details of such travel are passages of sharp perception. Commenting on a dinner with Harold Nicolson and his wife V. Sackville-West, Anne writes: "What is there about the English? You seem to be talking openly with perfect naturalness when-snap-the blind goes up (or down, actually) ... and you're left staring at the shutters." On the first anniversary of the tragedy...