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Phipps was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on December 24, 1925, and educated in the UK and South Africa. After Oxford University, he joined the Daily Mail, but his desire to get into arts management led him to Harold Holt Ltd, where he worked...
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It may as well, because this is a campaign apparently in search of leaders. It must be, because for some strange reason the gods of Mount Olympus keep thundering around like bull elephants. These men of ego, of pathological hatred and of vision keep...
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The promoter was a man called Harold Holt and I asked him how to contact Yehudi Menuhin, who was his biggest money spinner. Instead of charging me 1,000 guineas, he only charged me £1,000. He gave me Menuhin's phone number in 1947 and my association with him lasted until he died in 1999.
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The politics of the two nations intersect and interplay in sometimes critical fashions. Lyndon Johnson's visit to Australia in 1966, just weeks before Harold Holt called an election, contributed to Holt's landslide poll victory. It is common now to...
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IT WAS a rare kind of scene for a national park, and one that ranger in charge Victor Teoh remembers well. Standing on the top of Cheviot Hill at Point Nepean - overlooking the beach where Harold Holt drowned - he saw the helicopter flying above the...
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The last time this happened was in the Paul Keating versus John Hewson election of 1993. Before that, it happened in 1969, when John Gorton, installed as prime minister the previous year after the disappearance of Harold Holt, faced off against Labor's...
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Gillard will go into a likely election campaign today as the shortest-price Prime Minister since Harold Holt led the Liberal Party to Australia's biggest federal victory in 1966. Belying the small parliamentary majority held by the ALP, and the turmoil...
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His greatest skill was backstabbing and had Gorton not been so noble as to vote himself out of the prime ministership, McMahon would never have secured the top job. His greatest asset was his wife, Sonia, who was most famous for wearing a revealing...
About Harold Holt
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Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician who became the 17th Prime Minister of Australia in 1966. His term as Prime Minister dramatically ended in December of the following year when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea and was presumed drowned. Full Article
