Word: aloofness
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...white compatriots than the Prime Minister. 30O-lb. Sir Roy Welensky, onetime locomotive engineer. But despite the fact that both Welensky and his four-year-old country-a union of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland-officially subscribe to the doctrine of "racial partnership," Welensky has remained aloof from the Africans who make up the majority of its people. "Except for his servants," says one African leader, "Welensky has hardly spoken to an African since he ascended the political platform...
Walter Philip Reuther, 49, the redheaded boss of the 1,500,000 United Automobile Workers and vice president of the 15-million-man A.F.L.-C.I.O., remained utterly aloof from the tawdry discourse about Jimmy Hoffa and Johnny Dio going on in Washington. Instead, the U.A.W.'s Reuther chose to initiate a new public debate, not about labor corruption, but about economics. Aware of public concern about inflation, Reuther astutely proposed that the big three automobile makers cut prices on 1958 models by $100 or more below 1957 prices, whereupon his union would give "full consideration" to lower company earnings...
...news wondered who on earth he was. The greatest living poet of the Spanish-speaking world had hardly been translated into English, and. except for students of Spanish literature, even the literarily enlightened only vaguely knew his name from anthologies. In Spain Poet Jiménez had kept aloof from political life, in 1936 had exiled himself to America, eventually settling in Puerto Rico. Now one of his most memorable works is available to U.S. readers, largely thanks to a teacher of Spanish and French in the Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas...
...conflict between the calls made upon Britain," Macmillan told a television audience, "the Commonwealth comes first in our hearts and minds." He felt better when Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, in London for the recent Commonwealth conference, said that Australia did not think Britain should stay aloof from the economic integration of Europe...
...Latin American evil, that military personalities seek to make themselves dictators through recourse to the arms that the people themselves pay for. We shall so conduct ourselves that the army, in a democratic spirit, as in such other countries as the U.S., England and France, may remain aloof from partisan political strife...