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Thus did a local poet, U. Loutoo, describe his feelings about last week's elections in Trinidad and Tobago. The key issue in the campaign was whether the islanders should vote at all. Prime Minister Eric Williams, the arrogant and donnish political leader of his country since 1956, urged a big turnout for his People's National Movement. Most opposition leaders and their supporters, like Poet Loutoo, advocated an election boycott. As is true in much of the Caribbean, Trinidad has severe economic problems; unemployment is rising, tourism is in trouble, and many islanders are disgruntled that they...
...unlikely dictator, a donnish, reclusive man with sharp eyes and a high-pitched voice who shunned publicity, made few speeches or public appearances, and rarely traveled outside his own country. "One cannot entertain the crowd and govern them all at the same time," he was fond of saying. "The state does not pay me to lead a social life." He preferred to cloister himself with his books and papers in his high-walled home behind the National Assembly in Lisbon. He never married...
GEORGE PRATT SHULTZ, 49, named last week by President Nixon to head his powerful new Office of Management and Budget, peers through his spectacles with the donnish calm of a scholar about to address a graduate seminar. He comes by his professorial reserve quite naturally: he took a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. and taught there for several years. Later, he served as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business until Nixon picked him to be Secretary...
Doubtless Humphrey will discuss these points in his memoirs, which Doubleday plans to publish next year. In the meantime, Humphrey will probably lecture at the University of Minnesota, lay plans to replace McCarthy in the Senate if the donnish dove does not run again in 1970, and spend the next two years helping Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien recoup the party's $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 campaign debt...
...Voice in the Land. Politics fascinates Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...