Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character...
...President's warning came just before the London talks recessed until next week and Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen flew home to report fresh progress toward "partial disarmament" providing for a cutback in arms, manpower and defense costs. Three days before Stassen's arrival, Secretary of State Dulles had also moved in to mod erate any undue optimism about the talks that Happy Harold Stassen might generate. The Soviet proposals, Dulles granted at his news conference, marked "a certain measure of progress." But the Administration would make no disarmament moves-which could involve the "very existence...
...days after the bomb dropped, Harold Steele, the bewildered, bespectacled Quaker chicken farmer from the west of England who volunteered to face radioactive death in the area as a protest, arrived unheralded in Tokyo to learn from reporters that the blast had already gone-off. "I'm greatly disappointed," he said. "This trip has cost me my entire life savings...
...London sky lowered and thunder rolled in the distance as Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide...
...raise $2,000,000 to refinance the shaky corporate empire (23 subsidiaries manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans). But the team raised only enough to buy 60,000 shares. Last week, for the second time in seven weeks, ailing U.S. Hoffman got a new transfusion. The donor : Harold Roth, president of Continental Industries, Inc., a vending-machine manufacturer and distributor...