Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Decision. Into this atmosphere at week's end came British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, arriving in Washington aboard a Royal Air Force Comet. Macmillan, who favors the Soviet bid, contended that the long-drawn Geneva talks had raised such high hopes around the world that to resume testing would amount to propaganda suicide. If the West were to reject the Soviet compromise, it would have forfeited the opportunity to hold the Kremlin to a controllable ban on atmospheric tests and large underground explosions...
Adams could remember a happier and a more literary time, when a handful of dedicated writers and editors, among them Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, and Harold Ross of The New Yorker practiced their art with a lapidary's care. Clinging together for mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool...
Built for New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, makers of meprobamate (best known as Miltown), the model illustrated both basic brain physiology and the effects of various tranquilizing drugs, as reported by Dr. Harold E. Himwich of Galesburg State Research Hospital in Illinois. To spell out his findings, a 16-minute recording was played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding...
...Slaytons made no market decisions. They let Stephen M. Jaquith of Manhattan's Model, Roland & Stone brokerage firm choose what stocks to trade-and also gave Jaquith Managed Funds' brokerage business. Jaquith's commissions: $1,188,155. Another Model, Roland & Stone employee, who collected $240,831: Harold W. Smith, Hovey Slayton's brother...
...reflection of its violent and lustrous past. First published intermittently by Union troops during the Civil War, it was revived for the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, became a little-censored, undisciplined and often brilliant weekly with enlisted and commissioned giants on its staff-among them, Private Harold Ross (who went on to found The New Yorker), Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, Lieut. Grantland Rice and Captain Franklin P. Adams...