Word: harold
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...distinguished concourse of 38 foreign minis ters and 260 delegates representing 60 of the 81 countries on earth. They were met by the Golden Gate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit in Geneva...
Britain's Harold Macmillan added: "The tensions between East and West have seemed unending. But recently there has been a lifting of the cloud . . ." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was carried away: "Let us make no attempt to explain or even to understand all the whys and wherefores; let us merely note, but note with joy, that throughout the world there is at least a desire to talk...
When the judges asked who could be denied passports, U.S. Attorney Harold Greene hedged: "There is a point where such exercises of power by the Secretary would be considered frivolous . . . for example, if he decided on no passports to anyone who attends baseball games. I couldn't tell you where I would draw the line...
...Harold L Pearson, 52, became president of Air Transport Association, the organization of U.S. scheduled airlines. Kansas-born "Pete" Pearson spent 22 years in chain-store merchandising at J. C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck, then joined Montgomery Ward, where he was named Ward controller in 1934. Pearson went on to become vice president, treasurer, and Avery's close confidant. In 1945, like dozens of other Ward executives, Pearson "escaped," as he put it. Later, Pearson went to Washington, became Deputy Under Secretary of the Army in 1952, Assistant Director of the Budget Bureau...
...Anderson and Harold W. Hermann of Minneapolis made a plea, in the A.M.A. Journal, for doctors to report extremely rare cases of leukemia in identical twins to medical groups involved in leukemia research. Purpose of the request: to learn more about hereditary factors in the disease by studying its effect on two humans coming from the same ovum...