Word: harold
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Mild as the President's recommendations were, farm-state members of Congress found them too hard. "Antifarmer," cried North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Barked Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, Cooley's opposite number in the Senate: the request for lower price supports "doesn't stand a ghost of a chance." Nor does the U.S., if Cooley and Ellender have their way, stand a ghost of a chance of coping with the farm scandal...
There were only six weeks in which to ready Squaw Valley's bid for consideration as the U.S. nominee to stage the games. Cushing moved quickly, enlisted the support of California State Senator Harold ("Biz") Johnson and Governor Goodie Knight, got the legislators to revive an old bill that had promised Los Angeles money to back its successful 1932 Summer Olympics bid, pass a new version to guarantee $1,000.000 for Squaw. Old Friend and Squaw Stockholder (5%) Laurance Rockefeller gave his support. With evidence of financial backing, a hastily prepared brochure and a charming dissertation on Squaw...
...practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern of three lines, is the runaway favorite. Harold G. Henderson, author of An Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance -usually get trampled in translation. The haiku does not even seem...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...
...often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman's 279-page volume was selling at the rate of about 1,000 copies a day, a turnover few bestselling novelists achieve...