Word: harold
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...DRAMAS:, A tramp moves in with two exceedingly odd brothers in Redbriack. Dramatist Harold Pinter's The Caretaker , a hit last year in London (Oct. 4). Playwright Paddy Chayefsky is back again . This time with a contemporary treatment of the Old Testaments Gideon in which a poor farmer becomes a military genius and Fredric March walks the stage as an angel of God (Nov. 9). Broadway audiences will get their first look at much-acclaimed British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone...
Despite Britain's reluctance, the dream of union has survived. And last week Britain finally succumbed to its lure. In a House of Commons so packed that even the chamber gangways were stuffed with squatting M.P.s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan waited for a tense, expectant hush. Then he announced that Great Britain had finally decided to apply to join the Common Market, the three-year-old and amazingly successful economic union of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
...crisis since war's end, Prime Minister Macmillan and his Cabinet for weeks have been promising tough, bold, imaginative action. Home Secretary Rab Butler ringingly proclaimed that the government would "lead the nation in calling for moral values to emerge instead of materialistic appetites." Accused of excessive complacency, Harold Macmillan himself loftily intoned: "When you hear the announcement, you wall not think we have been complacent." In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd portentously lectured that "none of us must be bound by old dogmas...
Rocketing into the In box of Britain's unflappable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan came a dispatch reporting foreign concern over the adulation showered on Red Spaceman Yuri Gagarin during his recent visit to Britain. In no time at all the dispatch rocketed out again bearing a sardonic notation by the leader of the world's most zoophilous nation. "It was nothing," scratched Mac the Knife, "to what that little dog would have...
...expectations of 1) inflation, 2) higher profits, and 3) a general pickup in the economy. Just after President Kennedy's speech, the Dow-Jones industrial average scored its best three-day gain of the year, rose 18.76 points to close at a near record 705.13. Predicted Securities Analyst Harold B. Dorsey of Wall Street's Argus Research Corporation: "The annual rate of earnings on the Dow-Jones industrial average stocks in the first half of next year will be more than 10% higher than the best calendar year on record...