Word: harold
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...give point to his promise, the President made plans to fly to Europe in late August for talks with West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London, and with France's President Charles de Gaulle in Paris. While in Paris, Ike will meet with Italy's Premier Antonio Segni and Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, NATO's Council President Joseph Luns and Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak...
...Hoffa's Vice President Harold Gibbons, in 1958, crudely manipulated votes at a Joint Council 13 election in St. Louis to assure his election as local president...
...comeback champion of U.S. business so far in 1959 is a horn-handed engineer who has a word of Art Shay advice for every faltering firm: "You must compete in areas where you are prepared to compete." With this credo, Harold Eugene Churchill, 56, climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could...
...working life, Harold Churchill figured that the way to compete was to produce an "ideal" small car, but it took him many years to do it. He got into Studebaker 33 years ago as a half-trained engineer (two years at Western Michigan University), gained a name as "the guy who did everything." He was one of the three men who engineered the "economy" '39 Champion (priced as low as $675). During the war he began turning out the famed tanklike Weasel for the U.S. just 50 days after the company got the order. He filed more than...
Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed...