Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a pollster, pundit and politician who has been probing the U.S. body politic has found a pervading uneasiness in the 1958 campaign about the President's personal leadership, about whether or not "Ike is really in charge." Even while agreeing that Ike still stands high in popular affection, Syndicated Pollster Sam Lubell wrote last week that doubts about Ike's leadership may well be the make-or-break factor of the campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). "This leadership thing is the main trouble we're having with money and everything else," adds a Republican congressional candidate...
Berbers. Three cruisers of the French navy shelled coastal villages and French air force bombers destroyed 44 native settlements inland. In vengeance for 100 European dead, the French killed thousands of Moslems. Officially, French authorities place Moslem casualties at 1,005, but a prominent French politician recently estimated that the actual figure was closer...
...Nigeria (which is about to). The blacks, about 1,100,000 strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...
...grandfather, his father and his mother have been there, and so has Nelson in another era of his wide-ranging career. Now, in a new phase, the scion of a unique family, who may be the most remarkable Rockefeller of them all, comes forward as a hard-campaigning politician. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Rocky Roll...
Patronage & Chuckles. From Batavia to Salamanca to Jamestown, Nelson Rockefeller's polished performance was a crowd pleaser that any practicing politician would have envied. Yet: 1) Rockefeller is a tyro at the game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing. For Nelson Rockefeller is the grandson of the greatest tycoon of them all, the second son of the nation's most generous and most retiring philanthropist. He is a man who is a Croesus in his own right ($100 million, give or take a million), a man who in 30 years has counseled...