Word: harold
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Nonetheless, the prevailing student attitude--exaggerated as it may be--produces an interest in the running of the college that is commensurate with the spirit of inquiry that Sarah Lawrence attempts to foster. Former president Harold Taylor, who retired last year, discussed administrative matters freely with the students, encouraging the feeling that the students work hand in hand with, rather than under the aegis of, the administration. The feeling of intellectual community appears to be a movement away from individualism. One suspects that individualism came first to Sarah Lawrence, and that the community spirit represents an attempt at moderation...
...election of a governor in Kentucky and Harold E. Stassen's bid for mayor of Philadelphia drew the main national interest in Tuesday's scattered elections...
...Boston, John E. Powers, president of the state Senate, is favored to defeat his rival, John F. Collins, for the mayoralty Incumbent Democrat Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, is expected to soundly defeated Harold E. Stassen, who is trying a political comeback...
...Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, even though he faces a head-on collision with the state's Democratic boss, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, or Daley's candidate for the nomination. ¶In Philadelphia, Harold Stassen, who eleven years ago was a red-hot prospect for the Republican presidential nomination, got an unbrotherly, unloving cut in his campaign for mayor of Philadelphia, when the Bulletin and the Inquirer, both independent Republican newspapers, endorsed his opponent in next week's mayoralty election. Incumbent Mayor Richardson...
...troubled day in 1942 Britain's Harold Macmillan, then British representative at General Eisenhower's North African headquarters, wound up a policy discussion with France's Charles de Gaulle with the exasperated statement: "General, you are a most impossible man to deal with." Macmillan was not heard to repeat the remark last week, but the sentiment may well have crossed his mind. For last week, all by himself, Charles de Gaulle seemed to have succeeded in postponing summit talks, perhaps until next spring...