Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAROLD HUNTER Westview...
Unquenchable millions of Americans packed their children into sedans and station wagons and hit the road. For the moment, at least, summertime rites seemed more important than civil rights; personal clouds were fluffier than the faraway blossom of the latest atomic shot; disarmament was something for Harold Stassen to worry about; and international problems, from Arabs to Zhukov, all belonged...
...familiar places. They crowded the cities in meetings and conventions (in Minneapolis 50,000 members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine marched for three hours). They poured by the thousands over the central plains, coursing over highways that shouted with signs ("See Harold Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community...
...those in Macmillan's audience who remembered the recent despairing warning of that old internationalist Gilbert Murray, in the last days of his life, that the colored races are not ready for leadership of the world but are inheriting it by default, Harold Macmillan was plainly suggesting that empire-minded Tories, to preserve the values they cherish, should become good Europeans...
...strategic requirement thus reduced from "Cyprus as a base" to "a base on Cyprus," the way was cleared for a new political initiative there. Last week Governor Sir John Harding arrived in London for talks about the island's future. By week's end Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his cabinet were reported to have worked out a plan by which Cypriots would get the offer of a program leading up to the island's independence. The British were now willing to negotiate with the once banished Archbishop Makarios. The Cypriots would have to agree...