Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted him to answer, in longhand, some 5,000 letters on his handling of the 1960 Algerian crisis. Gunther is even more successful with the elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken...
...does with unsurpassed skill is to compress and illuminate the conditions, conflicts and characters of nations that he has covered for more years than any other U.S. newsman left on the beat. Pundits may fault his tightly packed book as superficial. Most other readers will probably agree with Critic Harold Nicolson's verdict on the first Inside: "It's only superficial on the surface...
Three weeks ago, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dispatched a trio of ministers to the far corners of the Common wealth. Their mission was to argue that what is good for Britain is good for the Commonwealth. Last week the three headed home in a minor state of shock...
...confess I am worried, but I am not afraid." Thus Prime Minister Harold Macmillan last week confided to a Tory caucus his feelings about Britain's deepening economic crisis. To the average Briton in pub and park, basking in the summer sun, there were few signs of anything even to worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety...
...16th hole in the second round, the blustery wind nudged the ball as he was about to swing, cost him a penalty stroke for hitting a moving ball. That left him a stroke behind diminutive, 5-ft. 5-in. Welshman Dai Rees and South African Harold Henning, with...