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...Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance"), and dismissed SEATO as a weak-spined organization, daring only to "send telegrams back and forth." He submitted to an hour of questioning at the National Press Club, and played host himself at a dinner...
...after World War I. And most 20th-century portraiture tries to achieve far more than surface realism. Yet these examples are especially gratifying because they depict subjects most of whose looks and work and character are quite familiar to us--Freud, Hemingway, Toscanini, Shaw, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Gertrude Stein, Nehru, Einstein...
...every rebel killed and village burned was costing Portugal more prestige in the eyes of the watching world. In New Delhi, India's Prime Minister Nehru (who has already thrown the Portuguese out of two small enclaves and would like to put them out of Goa, on India's west coast) urged the United Nations to invoke economic sanctions against Portugal because of the "tremendous revulsion of feeling all over the world" to events in Angola that are, he said, "horrible almost beyond belief...
...beats hell out of sitting around the office," said Bill Hearst as he and his pals prowled the global beat, collecting heads of state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser and Ben-Gurion at the same time"). Khrushchev has been such a regular subject for interviews that the Soviet Premier now regards Hearst...
...lagging behind in the space race, and the lowering of prestige in Laos. As an Asian, I can view it only as self-condemnation. President Kennedy's personal stature in the eyes of Indians has grown larger and greater than anybody else's. He is a Nehru of America...