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Still they come, all year round, to see the famed old man in his storied jungle setting. Public figures like Adlai Stevenson, starry-eyed U.S. Peace Corpsmen, spinster schoolteachers realizing a longstanding dream-all come for a visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At his mission three miles upstream from the Gabonese village of Lambaréné, "the great white doctor," now 88, affably greets them, autographing his books in a fine, steady hand. Yet, after devoting nearly two-thirds of his life ministering to the sick of equatorial Africa and being widely regarded as a near saint, Schweitzer...
...commencement address, Adlai E. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations warned that "steady intelligence in command of the facts" is all we have to combat "panic reactions" in this time of great social upheaval...
...Adlai Stevenson's defeat as a repudiation of intellect in politics. But it was a Republican year, argues Hofstadter, and almost any Republican would have won -let alone Eisenhower, who had the added advantage of enormous personal charm. Nor were all intellectuals for Stevenson. Following the current lodge rules for intellectuals, Hofstadter seems to assume that an intellectual is necessarily a "liberal"-thereby neglecting a whole genealogy of conservative intellectuals from Alexander Hamilton through Henry Adams to Henry L. Mencken and Robert Frost...
...summit conferences," said he. "What's wrong is sending a liberal to summit conferences." Buckley's suggestion? An Old Guard union leader. "If we sent John L. Lewis, for example, he would come back with the Ukraine in his hip pocket." "All those parties," noted U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, 63, can be an awful drag on serious-minded diplomats. But since that is the way diplomacy goes, he told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that U.S. delegates in Manhattan need an extra housing allowance to offset entertainment expenses. Whereupon Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa confronted...
...great play was whether or not it sent tingles up your spine. One name which does that to me is that great American hero, Douglas Mac-Arthur. We proudly boast that TIME was the first publication to call international attention to a name now honored throughout the world, Adlai Stevenson. If he can give us the tax system which we can live with, he will be the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton: Douglas Dillon. There are perhaps only a dozen original subscribers to TIME in this room tonight. One of them was a humble priest in Worcester...