Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lind '57 of Eliot House and Wilmette, Illinois, received the Harold S. Ulen Trophy at the swimming team's annual banquet Wednesday night...
Goheen's appointment last December ended a long search for retiring President Harold W. Dodds' successor. Dodds is retiring this year after 20 years as President...
Cosmic Con. Close by Mobile, Ala., and a long way from Venus, the FBI found Harold running a sign-painting business, arrested him for absconding with the Modulator investors' money, gathered the facts and handed them over to a federal grand jury. From what the FBI had to say, it was clear that Harold's "cosmic con" signaled the decline of such classic earth-bound dodges as the Gypsy Swindle, Pigeon-Drop, Sick Old Man and Handkerchief Switch. But Spaceman Berney, who has a long record of convictions for embezzlement and fraud, said there had been a terrible...
This basic decision was reached two years ago, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Harold Macmillan was his Minister of Defense. When Macmillan himself became Prime Minister last January, he gave the job of carrying out the decision to Duncan Sandys (Churchill's son-in-law, though he and Diana recently separated). The trouble was that Britain's missiles program, like its aircraft design, was lagging badly. Ten weeks ago, Sandys (pronounced Sands) took hat in hand, went off to Washington to ask for U.S. missiles. His success was signed and sealed at Bermuda...
...beginning of the week. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was plainly in trouble. Lord Salisbury, the remote and formidable Kingmaker (as the British press liked to call him), had abruptly quit the government over its freeing of Archbishop Makarios (TIME, April 8). Tory M.P.s were muttering about the "intense humiliation" Macmillan had brought on the country in Bermuda by making Britain dependent on U.S. guided missiles-minus their nuclear warheads. Within Britain itself 1,700,000 workers were still out on strike, and the pound sterling was fluttering...