Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson, I've got the biggest birthday present of 'em all for you; me." Last week Bill Proxmire became an Indian giver. Incensed over what he considers Johnson's highhanded conservative control of the Senate, Liberal Proxmire went into rebellion...
...expect to accomplish by all this? Macmillan himself had described his trip as "something in the nature of a reconnaissance." He did not have the authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope, in his urbane way. to correct a few misimpressions (he expected to find Russia as much changed from his brief 1929 visit, he said at the airport, as "England is today from...
Makarios, 45, spiritual and political leader of the Greek Cypriot majority on Cyprus, arrived in London with an "open mind" and no less than 35 "advisers," most of whom he had not seen since being exiled three years ago. Under pressure from this traveling panorama of opinion-from Reds to the far right-he began to haggle over details. Makarios protested that the Greek Cypriot President of the new Republic of Cyprus (likely to be Makarios himself) would have the trappings of power but not the authority, since the Turkish Cypriot Vice President would have effective veto powers. Makarios also...
Eating Crow. From the Laborites came shouts of "Ho! Ho!" and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell commented sarcastically, "The government deserve particular credit for eating so many words and even inviting Archbishop Makarios to the conference." Macmillan huffed back at Gaitskell: "He never has been and never will be able to rise to the level of great events...
...students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would he be pardoned by the British, sit down with them as Makarios' Defense Minister, and regale NATO councils with advice on how to wage guerrilla war? What would...