Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
...revolt were Sukarno's campaigns to convert Indonesia into a "guided democracy" and to bring the Communists into its government. By joining Sukarno in a public pledge of amity, Hatta had, in effect, agreed to moderate his outspoken criticism of the President. But, Hatta discovered last week, cagey Politician Sukarno himself was making no move to moderate the very policies that had caused the trouble in the first place. A disappointed man, Hatta took off for a trip to Red China as a guest of Premier Chou Enlai. Steadfastly antiCommunist, Hatta did not expect to like Sukarno...
Academic Fringe. At Edison High School young Murrow won the school's popularity contest, graduated at the head of his class. In Washington State College, as a speech major, campus politician, actor, debater and R.O.T.C. cadet colonel, he honed his voice, enunciation and speaking technique, made Phi Beta Kappa...
Basically, Faubus is probably not a dedicated segregationist. He is seen by many as opposed to integration now simply because it is the best issue which a politician can have in the South today...
Reaching outside politics, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker last week picked an unexpected recruit as Canada's new Secretary of State for External Affairs. His choice: Sidney Earle Smith, 60, president of the University of Toronto. A portly, affable man with silvering hair, a booming conversational voice and a politician's knack for remembering names, Dr. Smith had never held a political office, but he is better known across Canada than many of his Cabinet colleagues...