Word: harold
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...Harold Macmillan, who is more frequently likened to an Edwardian squire, last week was compared instead to Stalin, Robespierre and the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. Britain's Prime Minister earned such comments by pushing ahead with a pitiless purge in which he axed 16 ministers in four days. Though shocked by the mass firings of Macmillan's trusted lieutenants, Britons gleefully echoed Liberal M.P. Jeremy Thorpe's gibe: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his friends for his life...
After this radical operation, Harold Macmillan more than ever will have to stand or fall by the success of his administration. The new Cabinet certainly improves the government's "image," but many critics feel that the new faces are mostly familiar Establishment types, and that, for instance, any practical business talent is lacking among them. The Conservative Daily Telegraph optimistically announced: "The government has a fresher and stronger look." Opposition leaders were derisive. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell called the Cabinet shake-up "a political massacre which can only be interpreted as a gigantic admission of failure." Joseph Grimond...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has a reputation for being unflappable. But ambitious young Tory backbenchers have long complained that he is not ruthless enough in cutting away political liabilities and making room on his Cabinet team for new faces. Harold Macmillan last week again proved that he can be both flappable and ruthless. In a move that shook Britain, he summarily fired seven members of his 21-man Cabinet and reshuffled twice as many portfolios. Inevitably, the press called him "Mac the Knife...
...Defense Minister Harold Watkinson, who has been accused of fatally weakening Britain's armed forces (conscription ended during his tenure of office). His successor: Peter Thorneycroft, 52, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister of Aviation, an urbane, acerbic politician who likes to be called a "Tory" because the word is "short, sharp and abusive." - Lord Chancellor Viscount Kilmuir, 62, who for seven years presided over the judiciary. Successor: Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Attorney-General, widely nicknamed "Reggie Bullying-Manner." - Sir David Eccles. 57, Education Minister, a publicity-conscious politician who tried to cope with Britain's teacher...
...film is as faithful as a slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical...