Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breaking the old monotony of statesman portraits, Mrs. Kennedy's undertaking has brought to the White House many fine nonportrait paintings. There are still lifes by the Peales of Philadelphia, the U.S.'s first painting family. A porthole painting of Niagara Falls by John Kensett, a member of the Hudson River school, is typical of the characteristic U.S. landscape style in which the vista is distant and changeless...
...crisis, Queen Juliana called on up-and-coming Agriculture Minister "Vic" Marijnen, 46, who finally succeeded, lined up the youngest Cabinet (average age: 46) in the nation's history. One of the few former ministers who kept his old job was The Netherlands' best-known statesman, hardheaded Foreign Minister Joseph Luns...
...decisive strategic lead would be through a major breakthrough in missile delivery systems, which would not be covered by the test ban. In any case, nuclear technology is now so advanced that weapons such as the anti-missile missile can be developed entirely in the laboratory. Furthermore, no Western statesman believes that a test-ban agreement will restrain the French or Chinese from testing nuclear weapons at will, or even slow the spread of nuclear arms to other nations...
...letters column of the intellectual, leftist New Statesman, Christine Keeler and Marilyn ("Mandy") Rice-Davies were being analyzed in the somewhat different role as standard bearers of the proletariat. "Here was a section of working-class girls being sold as instruments to satisfy the sexual needs of the upper class," wrote Mathematician Hyman Levy, "while at the same time, there were no upper-class girls being recruited to satisfy the sexual needs of the working class." Levy was ironically seconded by Teacher M. L. Swan: "With a few fortunate exceptions-gamekeepers and other comrades who have infiltrated the enemy...
...world he is the liberal spokesman of ecumenical solidarity, leading the march along what he has called the long road to Christian unity. Alberto Lleras Camargo, statesman, former President of Colombia. . .LL.D...