Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear him on the White House lawn last week were 4,800 college students-the better part of 7.900 just winding up summertime Government jobs (TIME, Aug. 17). "I wonder," said the President, "if we could ask how many have become interested in either becoming a politician or a civil servant or a bureaucrat as a result of this summer?" Perhaps 500 hands went up. "What about the rest of you?" he asked. The kids laughed. So did Kennedy, as he began taking them on an informal tour through history...
...extra policemen will protect the French President. Along West Germany's borders, frontier guards have been alerted to exclude known members of France's fiercely anti-Gaullist S.A.O.* French and German officialsemphasize that the trip will be essentially ceremonial rather than political. Sniffed a German politician: "A museumlike event for two old gentlemen." It is certainly a historic one. But De Gaulle's speeches-some of which will be delivered in his halting German-will focus on a more significant and unselfish aim: his deep desire to show the world that France and West Germany have buried...
...intertwined, few have ever played the double game so well as the brothers Lopez -Eugenio, 61, and Fernando, 58. The older and dominant brother, wizened, unsociable Eugenio. presides over "the Molasses Fund." the war chest out of which the Philippines' potent handful of big sugar planters underwrite the politicians of their choice. Personable Brother Fernando, the team's working politician, served as Vice President in the sleazy administration of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-53), and is currently president protem-pore of the Philippine Senate...
...surprise of Canada's inconclusive national election in June was the emergence of a fiery back-country French Canadian politician named Real Caouette, 44, whose right-wing Social Credit Party unexpectedly won 26 House of Commons seats from Quebec. Since then he has been filling the air with eccentric, if not demagogic, remarks. His fellow Social Credit-ers in English Canada explain that what the French-speaking auto dealer says often gets lost in translation. But last week, Caouette came through loud and clear in an interview in Le Magazine Maclean...
Like any good politician, Goldwater aimed not only at polishing off TV but at polishing the Greek apple. "Your ancestors would look upon us with pity," he said, praising the serenity and balance of Greek art. "To them, we would be truly barbarians. In the midst of even the wildest and most whimsical [Greek] comedy, there remained that breath of greatness and of freedom. Comedy has become wisecracks. Very clever, sometimes even witty. But the background of greatness is not there, so the savor, the depth of contrast, is gone. The surprise, the fast switch, the shock, have taken...