Word: harold
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...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
Washington's flap is eternal, and no sooner had Ike made his availability known than a storm brewed about Richard Nixon as his running mate. Harold Stassen, who was supposed to advise the President on international disarmament, urged dumping Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. Hagerty, who liked Nixon and thought he was the strongest candidate for Vice President, consulted the President, issued a statement pointedly reading Stassen out of the official Eisenhower family in his fight against Nixon. Later, when Nixon announced that he wanted a second term, Hagerty again went to Ike, came...
...conquest of space," says Rocket Engineer Harold W. Ritchey, "depends on solid propellants." Dr. Ritchey, chief rocket man for Thiokol Chemical Corp., manufacturer of solid propellants, backs up his flat statement in Astronautics. He has no hope that liquid-fuel rocket engines ("a remarkable chemical processing plant") will ever get spaceships into space...
Flying off to Pakistan at week's end, Harold Macmillan took with him the cheering knowledge that the British are today more popular in India than ever before. Little more than ten years since Britain's viceroy ruled in New Delhi, British residents in India are more numerous (40,000) than they were in the last days of Empire, and, thanks to the new spirit of equality, enjoy far pleasanter relations with their Indian colleagues. As for the Indians themselves, they show surprisingly little resentment of the fact that Britons still control 80% of all foreign investments...
...detailed story on the State Department's wholly logical explanation for the spaceman stories: they had apparently been inspired by an Orson Wellesian rocket opera broadcast Sunday by Radio Moscow. Next day, in an intercontinental missive to editors, the A.P. said its two Moscow staffers (Bureau Chief Harold K. Milks and Roy Essoyan) heard the rumors well before the Wellesian broadcast and let them age 48 hours before breaking the story. Their "reliable" sources: "An Eastern European correspondent, then another, and then a Western correspondent who reported hearing it from a third East European correspondent," and finally "a Western...