Word: holte
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...boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy, pushing for more government-aided health services, larger old-age pensions...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES by Mortimer J. Adler. 395 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...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...
...PUZZLEHEADED GIRL: FOUR NOVELLAS by Christina Stead. 255 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...