Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impenitent. Britain's Harold Macmillan moved skillfully to avoid formal public condemnation of South Africa. Before the conference sessions began, he invited his Commonwealth colleagues to a weekend at Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers. In a series of tête-a-tête he won agreement to avoid open discussion of South Africa's problems at the conference's plenary meetings; in return, South African External Affairs Minister Eric Louw, substituting for recuperating Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, agreed to discuss the matter with other Commonwealth leaders informally...
Someone once asked Harold Ross, founder, editor, and professionally terrible-tempered boss of The New Yorker, what would become of the magazine after his death. "It will go its own goddam way, I guess," he replied. Ross was not quite right. Last week, nine years after his death from cancer, The New Yorker was still trying to go Ross's way. But one vital element was missing: the quality of editorial goddamishness that Ross himself gave the magazine...
...adult life, Isabel Bishop, 58, has been obsessed with the idea of movement, but she herself changes outwardly hardly at all. Each morning, as she has for the last 26 years, she leaves her Riverdale, N.Y. home with her husband, Neurologist Harold G. Wolff, and boards a train for Manhattan. At Grand Central, the doctor and the artist part, he to go north by subway to his office, she to go south to her studio on Union Square. There Isabel Bishop calmly takes command of a world she has made...
...treasured his newspapers as though they were rare and lovely gems. But after his death in 1951, control of his empire passed to a businessmen's trusteeship far more interested in profits than in jewel collecting. In recent years, Hearst Corporation President Richard E. Berlin and General Manager Harold G. Kern have kept the bill collector from knocking too loudly by trading off, every now and then, one of the less profitable baubles from the old chain. In 1956, they sold the Chicago American. Three years later, they merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard...
...arbitrates differences, suggests lines of agreement, sounds out his fellow directors. Four are Dutch: Lykle Schepers, 56, in charge of manufacturing, research, chemicals; Luitzen Brouwer. 49, exploration and production; Arnold Hofland, 59, marketing, personnel and Western Europe; and Loudon. Three are British: John Philip Berkin, 53, the oil coordinator; Harold ("Tim") Wilkinson. 57, in charge of North America. Far East, Australasia and United Kingdom-Eire; and Frederick Stephens, 56, legal matters and the Middle East, who takes over the chairmanship when Loudon is absent. Shellmen agree that their Britons incline more to flair and intuition, their Dutchmen to patience...