Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a comedy of terrors, tickling the funny bone with the feather of the absurd while scratching away at the skin with the razor edge of truth...
...behalf of the people of Australia, I would like to thank your President for his generous gesture on short notice in attending the funeral of our late Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt [Dec. 29]. The messages of condolence from your Government and the people of your great nation at such a time is an inspiration to the people of Australia. There are still people and indeed nations in this world that from time to time do appreciate the generosity and the repeated acts of good will that generate from your great country...
...less than 24 hours' notice, he assembled an entourage of four jet planes and 300 people and spent the next five days in a dizzying, 26,959-mile circuit of the globe. The original reason for his cyclonic odyssey was to attend services for Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt. Characteristically, Johnson transformed it into a microcosm of his coming campaign...
After years of silence and secrecy as the most important British spy the Russians have ever owned, Harold Philby has begun compensating by becoming something of a celebrity. Exposed only after he fled to Moscow in 1963, "Kim" Philby has since become the protagonist of a half-admiring, half-shocked avalanche of serialized articles in every major London newspaper. In the past three months, the British press has literally feasted on his exploits, as revealed to "Our Own Correspondent" by his 24-year-old son (in London), his third wife (in Tunisia), and former colleagues (sometimes identified only...
Charles de Gaulle imperiously describes it as "a lien weighing heavily on our national patrimony." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls it "industrial helotry." West Germany's Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss uses the word Ausverkauf-meaning sellout. The U.S. Government has frowned on it as a plague on the balance of payments. No matter what it is called, the fact remains that one of the most significant developments of the post-World War II world is the great leap by U.S. corporations into overseas markets-whether by direct investment in plant and equipment or by acquisition...