Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish business tycoon in Manhattan who is uncovered as a Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
...statutes enacted during Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
...plays an upright, uptight Los Angeles lawyer named Harold Fine with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone...
...swiftly turn the U.K.'s persistent trade deficit, a major source of sterling's troubles, into a surplus. With British goods much cheaper in the world marketplace, exports would rise while imports declined because foreign products automatically would cost Britons more. Surveying the early results, Prime Minister Harold Wilson exuberantly announced last summer that his country was "on the way to an economic miracle...
Died. Sir Harold Raggatt, 68, long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological survey of the continent, welcomed foreign capital for development of the desolate Out Back, eventually saw it all pay off as enough oil and gas were discovered to make Australia almost self-sufficient...