Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is one Washington institution that Carter is not likely to be able to change and may even help perpetuate. Says Pamela Harriman, wife of Democratic Elder Statesman Averell Harriman: "We are all going to do more or less what we've always done, but with new faces, of course...
...first glance, this week's contest for Senate majority leader looks like no contest at all: a dour conservative from West Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
...European statesman predicted recently that Communists will join the Italian government in 1977 and the French government in 1978. How much does this matter...
...pack his board with Gandhi nominees. Outside the courts, both publishers have had to talk suppliers into risking government retaliation by continuing to do business with them. In addition, Irani has had to persuade stockholders to resist selling out to Gandhi supporters. Irani himself has bought up thousands of Statesman shares and distributed them to loyal staff members...
Meanwhile, each paper is publishing only eight pages a day (down from a typical 14), and both are losing money. Irani believes his paper can continue publishing for another year or so. Says he: "The Statesman has not been around for a hundred years to sell out now to a Delhi Mafia." Goenka, however, is trying to sell off some of his other business properties to keep the Express group alive, and the papers could fold at any time. "We are carrying on, how long we don't know," says a Goenka associate. "They can't take...