Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAROLD & MOLLY BICKFORD...
...some, the wait has been longer than for others. Labor began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader...
...creation of a onetime farm boy named Harold Lincoln Gray, Annie ranks as one of the most durable, reactionary, humorless and lucrative little brats in the history of the funnies. In 40 years she has poured nearly $5,000,000 into Artist Gray's pocket-a figure that does not, to be sure, put him in Daddy Warbucks' class; Daddy is several times a billionaire. Even today, despite evidence of a waning national interest in the comics, Annie still reaches a paid readership of 30 million...
...have avoided; in sum they did not turn out badly for the Tories. He has been stumping the country, giving 29 rather tepid speeches and telling stories from the family joke book compiled by his wife. But his quiet jauntiness and aristocratic charm have gone over splendidly, while Laborite Harold Wilson's mixture of midnight oil and acid is unexciting...
...Harold Larrabee, 69, who has taken to history since retirement from teaching philosophy, has a logical explanation for its obscurity. "Everyone concerned," he points out, "had motives for wanting to forget it. The British did not want to call to mind their egregious blunders. Only seven months later the French admiral who defeated them was thought to have disgraced himself. Americans have been understandably reluctant to face up to the fact that their status as a nation was decided by an engagement at which no Americans were present...