Word: impetuousity
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Died. Tshekedi Khama, 53, tough, durable chief (1926-50) of the Bamangwato tribe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, who imposed education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous...
Like most painters. Carles hoped for public confirmation that his new abstract direction was valid. In the socially conscious U.S. art world of the 1930s, such confirmation was not forthcoming. (In 1936 Leger visited him in Philadelphia, was amazed to find "anything like this going on in America.") Carles began...
No. 3: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 56, heir to a great Republican name, for 13 years Senator from Massachusetts, Dwight Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952. President Eisenhower has great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination...
Trouble was that Senate Republicans, who like Gates, dislike able, impetuous Jim Smith. As ICA boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate...
* If unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu...