Word: politicians
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...first appeared on TIME'S cover back in 1957), he liked the company of journalists, and found many of his friends among them. When he entered the White House, the relationship became more formal, discreet and professional, as it had to. But it continued. As a superb politician, John Kennedy understood the value of sympathetic press coverage, as a President he wanted to influence opinion, but most of all he seemed to find stimulation in the afterhours give-and-take of candid, informed, sharp shoptalk of events and people. Correspondents and editors, a little awed...
Already the General has proved himself an extraordinary ruler. Unlike his predecessors, he is more than just a politician. Among other things he is an historian with a rich sense of the French past and some pronounced ideas about the French future. When de Gaulle reflects on the international situation, his thoughts are inevitably those of a French historian. The idea of European union recalls Bonepart's continental system; it is an appealing memory. The more pressing problems of the Atlantic alliance and international Communism evoke less attractive images. The General remembers the four untidy years he spent in London...
After debating James Wilson, co-author of City Politics, Carmine DeSapio supposedly said, "The professors have really come down to earth." Applied to Banfield and Wilson, DeSapio's observation is obviously true; these two Harvard professors display a politician's knowledge of their subject...
...Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, the year the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. He died August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, on the eve of the Great March on Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
Ruler of the World. But discounting Indira as a real political contender, the choice of most party members at present is former Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, an honest if colorless politician who has been one of Nehru's most loyal lieutenants and who, like his leader, comes from Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and the traditional breeding ground of Congress Party leaders. If Shastri is disqualified -he had a heart attack in 1959-a leading contender for the prime-ministership would probably be S. K. Patil, 63, a right-winger who runs Bombay with...