Word: harolde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia to spend two days before making the last stops of his 15-day journey in New Zealand, the Philippines-where President Ferdinand Marcos anticipated his arrival by asking his Congress to send 2,000 troops to South Viet Nam-and South Korea. At an official luncheon in Canberra, Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured his audience that, despite Senator Fulbright...
...Queen Elizabeth's profile on one side and a frilled-neck Australian lizard on the other, was nicknamed "the Twin Lizzie." The 100 piece, imprinted with the Australian lyrebird, was called "the fib." The 200 piece, which features a waterlogged-looking platypus, became "the Holt"-after Prime Minister Harold Holt, an avid beach enthusiast...
...Iowa Supreme Court in the case of Mark Painter, 7. "It is not our prerogative to determine custody upon our choice of one of two ways of life." Then, seizing the prerogative it said it did not have, the court took Mark away from his "bohemian" father, Writer-Photographer Harold W. Painter, 34, and gave him to his "conventional" maternal grandparents, Dwight and Margaret Bannister, both 60. Rarely has a custody decision hiked legal eyebrows higher across the country...
Father Y. Father. Bohemian Harold Painter is, in fact, a bright, creative Californian with a superficially rootless history: his parents were divorced during his infancy; he grew up in a foster home, joined the Navy at 17, later quit college to become a newspaper reporter in Alaska and the state of Washington. In 1957 Painter married a fellow Anchorage reporter, Jeanne Bannister, despite Jeanne's parents' disapproval, and the couple lived and wrote together happily in Pullman, Wash. One day in 1962, while Painter stayed home tending Mark, his wife drove their daughter to nursery school...
...Died. Harold Freedman, 69, literary agent, a onetime actor who turned in his best performances peddling (for a 10% commission) Broadway shows to Hollywood, including Hello, Dolly! to 20th Century-Fox for $2,000,000, and My Fair Lady to Warner Bros, for $5,500,000 and 47½% of the gross over $20 million-highest price ever paid for movie rights; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...