Word: statecraft
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...Maintain" was not really the word. "Prevail" was more like it. All her life she spoke of the pomp and protocol that enveloped her as "the cage," and she never ceased struggling to escape its confines. As a constitutional monarch she had limited executive powers; yet she learned statecraft so thoroughly that Cabinet ministers were constantly being stumped by her sharp questioning. In exile during World War II, so efficient was she that one escaped Dutch Resistance fighter marveled. "The government in London was a bunch of chattering wives, but there was one man: the Queen...
...last among twelve Average Presidents was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ranks 22nd, and comes in ahead only of the impeached Andrew Johnson. The two complete failures on the list: postwar Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding. The criterion was achievement, said Schlesinger: whether a President's statecraft was creative, his work affected the nation's destiny. And if it made anyone feel better, Greats and Near Greats occupied the White House for nearly half the 172-year lifetime of the Republic...
...seldom statesmanlike." Today, more than ever, given charm, taste, tact-and looks-the wife of a ruler can be statesmanlike simply by being a woman. In the color pages that follow, TIME surveys a new and lively generation of First Ladies who are adding style and spirit to statecraft from Abidjan to Washington. Whether entertaining at home or making the foreign rounds with their husbands, the reigning beauties of 1962 are the West's best argument for face-to-face diplomacy...
...final but necessary decision to go ahead with nuclear testing in the atmosphere. Other problems lie ahead in Southeast Asia, in Congress, in NATO, in the United Nations. With full realization of what he faces, and the experience of the year behind, Kennedy speaks today of the "uncertainties" of statecraft. "You can't be sure," he says...
...Cocked Hat. Benumbingly British Comic Terry-Thomas comes uproariously into his own as an English foreign service officer who, determinedly misassisted by Peter Sellers, hurls a barrage of satire on the subject of statecraft...