Word: harold
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There were warmups from Prince Philip and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (after Ike, said Mac, Nixon was "the next best thing"). Then Nixon spoke on winning "the victory of plenty over want." Khrushchev, he said, has called for an economic contest between systems. "I am sure that all of us would be delighted to accept the challenge. In such a contest no one could really lose . . . We need to apply in this field the same determination, willingness, and cooperation which enabled us to build the military strength which deters aggression today...
...From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan two years ago plumped for a 17-nation European Free Trade Area to supplement the Common Market. The F.T.A. would permit free exchange of industrial products between member nations, but, unlike the Common Market, it did not call for ultimate establishment of uniform wage and tax levels...
...Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education A, will take a sabbatical this spring to "shut my office door and go into the Widener stacks," he disclosed yesterday...
...than doubled Mack's sales and successfully weathered the recession
(third-quarter sales of $66,352,321 v. $60,759,386 in 1957).
Successor: to be named by Dec. 31.
...Gold, Kent, Newport), fourth largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (first nine months' sales: $353 million), moved up to the vacant post of board chairman, but will continue as chief executive officer. Taking his place as president, and most probable successor to head Lorillard when Gruber retires in two years: Harold Francis Temple, 55, vice president and director of sales, who began as a salesman with Lorillard 30 years...