Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. The second volume of the former British Prime Minister's memoirs focuses clearly on England's wartime government and Macmillan's role...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned, during a CBS television interview, that nuclear escalation in Viet Nam would be "sheer lunacy." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai promised North Viet Nam nuclear weapons if the U.S. uses them. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a formal query to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking if there was any truth to the nuke talk...
Whose Favorite? Last week, drawing up the card for the primary, a bipartisan Wisconsin nominating committee was divided on what other candidates to place on the ballot. Nixon, Romney, California Governor Ronald Reagan and, as always, Harold Stassen, were accepted as "generally advocated or recognized" possibilities. So were Rockefeller and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, though both immediately announced that they would seek to have their names removed...
...EDUCATION: U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe called the $11.6 billion education program (v. $10.8 billion last year) "the largest package of higher-education legislation ever considered by any Congress." But it was hardly revolutionary. Behind the few new programs were drastic cuts in old ones. College-level construction money was slashed from last year's $450 million to $75 million, and library funds were cut from $104 million to $46 million. Government-sponsored scholarships-which last year financed 105,000 freshmen-will support only 63,000 in the coming year...
...each other, a Jewish-dialect comedian totters onto the premises in the form of an 89-year-old furniture appraiser. Gregory Solomon, a kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...