Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to waste their time and money, that's their business. I've just given up trying to stop them." Up for re-election to the Senate next year, he will spend an increasing amount of his time back in Arizona. But still, Barry Goldwater is a politician-and it is a rare politician who would really write himself off for the presidency. In his private moments, Goldwater recognizes that fact. Says he of the various Goldwater-for-President movements: "It's very flattering. I'd be a liar if I said it wasn...
...Israel (thereby earning Israel's Medallion of Valor). By now, Pearson had won such fame as a civil servant that the courtly St. Laurent, succeeding aging Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1948, brought him into his Cabinet as External Affairs Secretary-and into Parliament as a reluctant politician. Asked on the day he joined the Cabinet when he had become a Liberal, Pear son grinned: "Today...
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
Despite Adenauer's towering contempt for him. "Uncle Ludwig" is by far the most popular politician in the country; a recent public-opinion poll showed that he is regarded by 25% of the voters as the best man to succeed Adenauer, whereas Socialist Leader Willy Brandt is favored by only 12%. But with federal elections only two years away, 32% of those polled now look on the Socialists as the "most sympathetic party," while only 30% so regard the C.D.U. A three-man C.D.U. committee chosen to name the next Chancellor appears convinced that only Erhard can reverse...
...Tunku has the charisma of the really successful politician. His title draws enormous respect from the masses, and at the same time his genuine charm and easygoing manner quickly win their confidence. Though he is a devout Moslem, Abdul Rahman enjoys brandy and soda; he is also an excellent curry cook. With his third wife, Sharifah Rodzia, and their four adopted children (two of whom are Chinese),* the Tunku leads a life of cheerful disorder in Kuala Lumpur's open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting...