Word: harold
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Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, committed to summit talks if diplomats can agree on an agenda, felt strong enough in terms of British public opinion to launch an attack against the Labor Party's line on nuclear tests. "What prevents war," he said, "is the balance of power. Peace has been preserved thus far not because the West has been disarmed but because the present balance is roughly equal. I would not like to be responsible for the outcome if we were to abandon the balance." Said the New York Times: "The Soviet strategy emphasizes again Moscow...
Ambassador Whitney will likely make his final decision when he returns to the U.S. for a week of personal business before the official visit of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in early June...
Against this turbulent, doom-splashed setting, Reporter and Author Theodore H. (for Harold) White (Thunder Out of China, Fire in the Ashes) projects a well-crafted first novel. A June Book-of-the-Month Club co-selection, The Mountain Road combines a pistol-paced war story with the education of a quiet American major whose cultural reflexes are slower than his command decisions...
...Laborite Harold Wilson called it "a mouse of a budget," but Labor was not too anxious to show itself in favor of inflation, for if threatened nationwide strikes occur soon, Labor stands to lose politically by them. In a TV broadcast, Heathcoat Amory agreed that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation...
...raise money for a retired nurses' fund, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened up his Sussex home to the public for one day, gathered more than $500 for the charity from some 2,000 who paid admissions, sipped soft drinks, gawked at the handsome gardens. In his best country-gentleman manner, the Prime Minister posed on the steps of Birch Grove House with wife Lady Dorothy and six blooming grandchildren: Anne Faber, 13, Alexander Macmillan, 14, Adam Macmillan, 10, Mark Faber, 7, Michael Faber, 12, and Joshua Macmillan...