Word: harold
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...Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, the defense wound up the second week of presenting its case in what has already become the longest criminal trial before a jury in any federal court. The previous record was set in 1949, when Judge Harold B. Medina, since elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, presided over the celebrated seven-month trial of eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party. The current trial was already eight months old when the Government rested its case...
...Though Harold Macmillan's government says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance...
First year man Jeff Kirk and Bill Rogerson scored points in every meet and are considered bright prospects for varsity competition. Teammates Roger Smith, Harold Tzeutschler, and Langdon Burwell were also what McCurdy termed "potentially top flight runners...
...University of Chicago, of which he was a trustee for 48 years, Meat Packer Harold H. Swift willed the $5,000,000 bulk of his $7,000,000 estate, half of the money to be used at the discretion of the school's officials, the other half as a permanent endowment fund. Cautioned Swift, a bachelor whose major outside interest was the university: "The fund is to be invested and reinvested ... I do not mean thereby to encourage the taking of wild gambles, trusting to luck; but rather I would have said university free to take on occasional unorthodox...
Died. Willis Harold O'Brien, 76, longtime moviemaker who ushered in Hollywood's monster era with his trick photography of dinosaurs and other enormous beasts; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. O'Brien's monsters were, of course, tiny movable models photographed a few frames at a time, a technique best remembered in his 1933 classic King Kong, in which a mammoth ape invaded Manhattan, wound up atop the Empire State Building batting away U.S. fighter planes like so many gnats...