Word: harold
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...weeks Western governments had known that the Russians were going to do it. Nikita Khrushchev had said as much to Harold Stassen, amidst the drinks and din of the party at Claridge's. But when the announcement came last week that the Soviet Union would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men by May 1957, the response of the West was confused, contradictory and uncertain...
Soberest reaction came from Harold Stassen, who announced that a group of eight distinguished soldiers and experts has been called to assess the implications of the Russian gambit. The advisory group would also try to find an answer for Russia's expected demand that the West match their reductions. To that expected challenge, Dulles recently provided a short answer in the form of an anecdote: A fat man and a thin man agreed to go on a diet; the fat man got healthier, the thin man starved to death...
...Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, legally separated from his wife Jeanne (TIME, May 21) and about to be separated, by his own decision, from most of his racing stable, looked carefree as he emplaned for Brussels and a convention of the World Veterans Federation. Flying with him was Disabled Veteran Harold Russell, onetime cinemactor (The Best Years of Our Lives) and an official of the World Veterans Fund headed by Vanderbilt, a wartime Navy lieutenant and PT-boat skipper...
Advisers, of course, are limited by time, but most find the time and interest to go well beyond this narrow study-card approach. Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, for instance, sees an an important function for advisers the help they can give to students to get through the "machinery and red-tape of Harvard." "All the advising system is, in the end," says Martin, "is a substitute for the kind of explanation one would give to a stranger or a guest if he came to one's house...
...Secretary of State who is careless with words, but more importantly, as one who fails to see that this country must rethink the future of its foreign policy. There are men close to the Administration who do see the changes demanded: Milton Eisenhower, John Sherman Cooper, Paul Hoffman, or Harold Stassen. If John Foster Dulles is not replaced, however, his continuance in office is likely to loom as a major issue in the November election...