Word: harold
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...exterminator, I certainly approve of "Pest" Harold Gross [June 15] and his methods of controlling the "waste-pests" infesting Congress...
Such waspish criticism is routine for wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) Harold Royce Gross, 62, seven-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's farm-rich Third District. Day after day, year after year, Gross uses the crisp voice of a onetime Des Moines and Waterloo radio newscaster to scold his colleagues about their leisurely ways, question any and all spending bills, and push what he considers his lonely fight "to save this country from national bankruptcy." He is a nitpicker and a pest. He detests Washington's social life ("I've never worn a monkey suit...
...Market. The Commons debate began in the rosy afterglow of the weekend meeting between Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle. No longer was Whitehall convinced that De Gaulle was determined to keep Britain out of the Market. Though the official communique was noncommittal, one British official summed it up: "Macmillan's weekend inclines us now to believe that De Gaulle will let us into the club-after socking us with the heaviest possible dues." No dues are high enough for some of the opponents to Britain's entry. The opposition includes some strange bedfellows...
...Died. Harold Higgins Swift, 77, former board chairman of Swift & Co., world's largest meat-packing house, the last of Founder Gustavus Swift's seven sons, a bachelor who was the University of Chicago's most generous alumnus; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
This insight into the speakers mind is regarded as one of the real contributions of the lecture system by Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education A. "One thing you can't duplicate," he says, "is the intelligence of the lecturer. Large numbers of students are introduced to a subtle mind working in a fashion never before met. They encounter kinds of human activity they never dreamed existed...