Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...global game of personal diplomacy, President Eisenhower was slow to play the U.S.'s ace-himself. As the world's most popular political leader, he is also the U.S.'s most effective ambassador. Last week Ike announced an historic presidential diplomatic mission. He will swing for 19 days and 19,500 miles through nine nations of Southern Europe and Southern Asia, centering on the Western summit meeting in Paris, Dec. 19. Said he: There will not be "a great deal of time for dallying along...
Cold-eyed Earle Clements, again the strongman in Kentucky politics and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's handyman on the national scene, won the power to pick Johnson-for-President delegates for most of the state's 31 convention votes. If Texan Johnson's bandwagon bogs down, Clements' men are convinced that they will be swung over to Missouri's Stuart Symington. But such plans may run into intraparty fire from Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, who may wind up fighting for a chance to split off some of the votes for Old Friend Stevenson...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. The leader of Burma's jungle-fighting Chindits during World War II, portrayed in a well-done biography...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...