Word: harold
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Before he takes on the Democrats, Amateur McGonigle, the G.O.P. organization candidate, must take on Old Professional Harold Stassen, the amateurs' candidate, in the May 20 primary. Eased out as President Eisenhower's disarmament adviser, ten-year Pennsylvania Resident Stassen (he was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1952) returned home, ignored taunts of "carpetbagger," solicited endorsement as the party's candidate for governor. He was rebuffed by the unanimous decision of 67 Republican county chairmen. Nevertheless, he filed. Then he set out like underdog to sniff out anti-organization Republican little wheels...
Ready to Fail. The issue was whether to let the Anglo-American "good-offices" mission fail. For seven weeks, since the French aerial bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17), U.S. Diplomatic Troubleshooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley had been trying to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia. They cleared away many brambles, but on one point no agreement seemed possible. Keenly aware that his own people would almost certainly repudiate him if he shut off all aid to the Algerian rebels, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba flatly refused...
...many Britons eager to try again in the phantom hope of restoring a big Chinese trade, British Labor M.P. Harold Wilson, recently back from Peking and a two-hour interview with Premier Chou Enlai, last week reported a significant new bob and duck in the interminable reeling and trolling of the Communist line...
...play could not go very far wrong with Harold Scott in the title role; for the greater part of the evening his performance is unbeatable. Scott brings out the wry eerieness of the mad Lear beautifully, without indulging in the cheaper kind of shock effects. He is even better in the pathos and grandeur of the last scenes, in which he is nicely complemented by Mikel Lambert's Cordelia...
...They sold 454 cars and trucks in nine days-almost twice as much as in the preceding three weeks. Akron dealers raffled off $100 a day among people who took trial drives in new cars, boosted sales by more than 50%. Philadelphia De Soto Dealer Harold B. Robinson promised buyers that they could postpone installment payments if laid off because of the recession. Result: Robinson's sales rose...