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Americans had a look at Polyansky when he visited the U.S. in early 1960 as head of the delegation of Soviet republic premiers. His booming voice and bouncing gait distracted attention from the careful cliches of his speeches. But speeches are not what count in Kremlin politics...
...dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce...
...accompanied the refrain with piercing three-short and two-long whistles. Ignoring the clamor, De Gaulle climbed from his car, waved cordially, and entered the town hall to address local dignitaries. When he emerged, the square reverberated with caterwauling shouts and whistles. De Gaulle ambled in his camel gait straight into the crowd at the point where the shouting was loudest. Startled Europeans fell back. Some were so nonplused that they paused in mid-scream to shake his hand...
...Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he walks with the stiff, lurching gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, his head square and massive. But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem...
Gaitskell was indeed battling for his political life. At the Labor Party conference at Scarborough last month, Gait-skell's foes had rammed through a resolution endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. Defiantly, Gaitskell, a determined supporter of NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or as binding on him, argued that only the party's elected representatives in Par- liament could finally speak for the Labor Party. He insisted that the "Parliamentary Party," which is British shorthand for all Labor Members of Parliament, still backed him and his policy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent...