Word: harold
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Last March, Speck showed up in Monmouth, Ill., where he had spent his early years. Soon afterward, a 33-year-old barmaid was found beaten to death in an abandoned hog house; then a 65-year-old widow was bound, robbed and raped. According to Police Chief Harold Tinder, Speck left town the night of the latter crime. In late April, he shipped out on an iron-ore boat but was sent ashore after one week to undergo an emergency appendectomy in Hancock, Mich. There, he made friends with a newly divorced nurse, Judy Laakaniemi, 28. Speck dated her several...
Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally...
...Education Commissioner Harold Howe, who has spoken out sharply against de facto segregation in recent months, the survey represents the factual basis for an all-out Government attack on the racial imbalance of the nation's schools. Within the next few weeks, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to organize a special section to investigate de facto segregation in Northern states. Legislation now before Congress would withdraw federal aid for a year from school districts failing to desegregate, and would provide $50 million in technical assistance to those that are actively correcting racial imbalance...
...than 2,000,000 annual visitors without crowding. After all, it's the biggest park in the system, with 3,400 square miles-almost triple the size of Yosemite. Yet most of the campers are determined to set up at Old Faithful, and the experience of Navy Chief Harold Loveless is typical: "We moved into an empty campsite, and within 15 minutes we were surrounded by campers, all doubling up on the same site. There's absolutely no privacy...
...Bank of England's action will provide short-term relief for the pound by attracting back to English banks some of the money that has been siphoned off owing to more attractive interest rates elsewhere and uncertainty over the pound. But in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson hinted that for the long term further austerity measures may be necessary...