Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most talked about political figure in India today is not, technically speaking, a politician at all. He has never run for public office, and even denies that he has firmly set his sights on a political career. Nonetheless, Sanjay Gandhi, 29, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating...
Though he could think of some cases where an extramarital fling "might save a politician's sanity," said Democrat John V. Lindsay, 54, that philandering politician in the former New York mayor's first novel is strictly fiction. The central character in The Edge is dapper Mike Stuart, an ambitious Congressman with a wife, three children and a mistress. The author, insisted Lindsay, is an ambitious ex-Congressman with a wife and four children. Period. "As my old friend Bill Buckley said, there is a certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan...
Tricky Question. Abroad, he was better informed. In fact, Dorsey himself in 1966 and 1971 ordered payments totaling about $4 million to politicians in South Korea, where Gulf has sizable operations. The question of whether to pay was tricky, because the line was so fine between bribery on Gulfs part and extortion by the Koreans. Dorsey described for the McCloy committee a meeting with South Korean Politician S.K. Kim: "He dived straight into the matter and told me that we were doing exceedingly well out there, and that basically our continued prosperity depended on our coming up with...
...they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue that makes him élite and his wife chic, his views avantgarde, his opponent naïve. Who would want to unscramble omelette, anglicize soufflé or advertise crêpes suzette as pancakes Suzy...
...easy to see Adams as the American-style politician, brother under that wig to all the people now running up and down the country propelled by the curious belief that they are qualified to be President. But Adams is so human and unself-conscious in the anguish of frustration or the exhilaration of accomplishment that one often forgets to think of him as anything so grand as a leader, let alone as a founding father. That stress on the human basics is, of course, what all historical dramas should aim for and what so few of them actually achieve...