Word: harold
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Later that afternoon, President Kennedy got further word of his father's illness. His Bermuda conference with Brit ain's Harold Macmillan was less than 48 hours away. But there could be no doubt that Jack Kennedy would fly first to his father's bedside. "I'm going," Kennedy told Salinger. "Get things ready...
Between visits to the hospital. President Kennedy conferred with his aides, tried to keep abreast of his official duties. From Bermuda. Harold Macmillan offered to fly to Palm Beach for his talks with the President, or to call off the conference altogether. But when the doctors reported that Joseph Kennedy might continue in his semicomatose condition for weeks. the President decided to go ahead with his Bermuda plans...
...memorable-but in fact, the eagle, the lion, the lamb and the bear were far from harmonizing about peace on earth. And it was a gloomy day when President John Kennedy arrived in Bermuda last week for his fourth series of somber talks this year with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Sitting in Hamilton's pale pink Government House. Kennedy and Macmillan conversed for as long as five hours at a stretch-with only a few minutes out for tea-but. inevitably, they were able to produce little in the way of hard solutions to the world...
Although some local citizens attempted to impose their own ideas, the officials wisely brought in architects and entrepreneurs from all over the U.S. to plan the big show. "When I came here a year ago," says Harold Shaw, performing arts director for the fair, "the first response was, 'Well, he's from New York. Watch him.' They wanted local entertainment. The local Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. Dancers from the local studios. The local Little Theater groups. I told them, 'Look, this is supposed to be a world's fair, not a county fair. Grow...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter, holds a mirror up to two strange brothers and a verminous tramp and, in it, an audience can read humorous and heartbreaking truths about the human condition...