Word: spokes
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...vision in foreign policy and "closeness with the American people." He also has a high regard for John Kennedy as a "much more inspirational President" than Truman, and for Lyndon Johnson's deep concern for the poor and the weak and his skill in pushing legislation through Congress. He spoke of Winston Churchill as the pre-eminent leader of our time, of Charles de Gaulle as uniquely expressing "the ideals and hopes and pride of the French," and of Mohandas Gandhi as the embodiment of "quiet courage...
Betty Mayer spoke briefly, telling her audience--which overflowed Lehman Hall's dining room and balcony--that they were the "elite of the elite" and predicting that in a matter of years they will be "running the country...
Rizzo's most recent trouble began in March with a satiric and rather rough column in the Philadelphia Inquirer that portrayed him as a swaggering pol who spoke and thought like Archie Bunker. Rizzo looks tough, even hobbling around with the aid of a cane (the result of a broken hip suffered during an oil-refinery explosion in Philadelphia last October). He also talks tough; in his 1971 "law-'n'-order" campaign, he called his opponents "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots." In certain respects, to be sure, the comparison is hardly apt. Rizzo, who favors...
...automobile empire, Gianni Agnelli, 55, is perhaps Italy's most influential industrialist. He is also one of the country's most astute and articulate analysts of political affairs. Last week, in an interview with TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, Agnelli spoke out on some of the major problems facing Italy today...
That lesson is not lost on Spain's King Juan Carlos, as he attempts to market the monarchy in a riven land. When he was named Francisco Franco's successor-to-be in 1969, the young prince spoke a vow worthy of Don Quixote: "My pulse will not tremble when it comes to do what is necessary for the future of Spain." True to his word, in the five months since the generalissimo's death, the novice King, a direct descendant of France's House of Bourbon, has performed with courage and dignity...