Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having a ready effective city government; in the Wagner-Lefkowitz debate they neither expected nor got a serious discussion of municipal problems. But if the purpose of the debate was to project personalities, it was a considerable success. Manhattan-born Bob Wagner came across as a bland, coolly confident politician of the collar...
...captured the scene from an opportune angle. There, jutting out of Betancourt's pocket, was a pistol butt. The picture raised questions of why a head of state should pack his own pistol. But in Latin America, where the bullet is often more decisive than the ballot, no politician has a better right to fulltime self-protection than Venezuela's embattled chief executive...
...high-level Kenyan politician who is closely connected to that country's program for sending students to the United States spent yesterday on a tour of the University...
Underlying and responsible for the graft, Richardson thinks, are apathy among the wealthy burghers and self-disrespect among individual politicians. "No longer an esteemed benefactor, and not yet a respected public servant, the politician, in the eyes of all too many citizens of Massachusetts, is a mere errand boy, remembered only when there is a ticket or a sidewalk to be fixed...
...most pragmatic politician-statesman is Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, a man whose goals, once set, stay set. Characteristically, the goals Frondizi set for his journey to the U.S. and the U.N. last week were rigid-but realistic. He was determined to convince highly placed North Americans of his unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count...