Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-postponed decisions. France's Charles de Gaulle, after a year devoted to cautious, almost imperceptible maneuver against both Moslem rebels and self-professed French patriots, drew himself up at last to announce his plan for staunching the hemorrhage of civil war in Algeria. In Britain Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, capitalizing on the sunburst of Ike's public personality, quickly called elections that could give the Tories five more years in power...
Venturing forth early last week from Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, Tory Squire Harold Macmillan earnestly read the lesson (Joel 2: 15-16) at the Anglican parish church of Ellesborough. "Blow the trumpet in Zion," he intoned; "call a solemn assembly: gather the people." Barely 36 hours later, after a fast flight to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Macmillan officially advised Queen Elizabeth that he planned to call a general election...
...Salem Real Estate Man Harold Schmidt-father of eleven-it was a bonanza. His son Denny, 21, is a Portland senior; Son Keith, 22, and Daughters Victoria Anne, 20, and Margarite May, 18, are entering freshmen. The new plan not only halves their total tuition to $1,320; the four are also paying it themselves by working at outside jobs and starting their own boardinghouse for six Portland coeds...
...Overgenial Host. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan also reaped a political fortune from Ike's visit, and in Britain, where a general election is looming, the fact was particularly pertinent. Playing the genial host far more actively than was strictly necessary, wily Harold capitalized on his opportunity to the utmost. Although the Queen's representative, the Earl of Gosford. was on hand as a symbol of the head of state to greet Eisenhower at the airport, it was the Prime Minister who suavely climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London...
...Died. Harold Sines Vance, 69, board chairman of Studebaker (1935-53), who with the aid of Studebaker Sales Chief Paul Hoffman, pulled Studebaker out of receivership when it went under in the Depression; of pneumonia; in Washington. Vance served on the Atomic Energy Commission since 1955, where he advocated use of atomic energy in industry...