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...beginning of the end of the trouble appears to be at hand, and assessments of the emotional losses have begun to be tallied. Perhaps the most eloquent statement on the damage to the national psyche came last week from the 90-year-old Earl of Stockton, who as Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Bent with age and leaning on a silver-topped cane, he rose from a red leather bench in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech to a hushed, expectant house. Referring to the strike, he said, "It breaks my heart...
Upon submitting his senior thesis in April 1943, an elated Harold F. Van Ummerson 44 ran down to the Harvard radio station, inspired to do something unusual. For the next three hours, he played all of Beethoven's symphonies in numerical order, changing the 78 RPM records every three or four minutes...
...Reagan man," said Ron Firmite, a butcher from Sawyer, Mich. "Everybody in my family is working now, and so is everybody I know who wants to work. That's a big change from a few years ago." In Illinois, the warring Democratic factions of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Cook County Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak reached a fragile truce but were still unable to deliver the way the late Mayor Richard Daley once...
...boxy styling for the rounded forms of its current new cars. The sleek redesign has been a hit in the showroom, and last week Ford named Donald Petersen, 58, who championed the new shapes, to succeed the retiring Philip Caldwell as chairman next Feb. 1. Executive Vice President Harold Poling, 59, will replace Petersen as president...
...latest veteran of New York City's old literary left to publish his memoirs. Other recent recollections of this once exclusive and fractious fraternity include Irving Howe's A Margin of Hope and William Barrett's The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals. They were, in Critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phrase, "the herd of independent minds," part of the theory class that dominated political and cultural debate from the '30s through the '50s. Although deaths, dispersions and change have greatly reduced the group's influence, its value should not be underestimated. Ideas, like...