Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statesman dies, while his troubled republic survives-and grieves...
...seemed almost inevitable, but still it came as a sickening shock. Two months after he had been kidnaped on his way to parliament and his five bodyguards slain, Aldo Moro, 61, president of the Christian Democratic Party and Italy's most eminent statesman, was brutally assassinated, his body left in the back of a stolen car parked in the historic center of Rome. The cruel ordeal was over, but the grief and anger over his murder had only begun...
They asked the Georgetown neighbors if he had a drinking problem. They inquired up the street about his sexual habits. The subject of the investigation: veteran Statesman W. Averell Harriman, 86, who represented the U.S. at Yalta and led the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks. The snoopers: State Department agents performing a "routine" security check because Harriman has been nominated to be a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. special session on disarmament later this month. Said he diplomatically: "I have utterly no objection. It's part of the rules and perfectly appropriate...
...depends on getting the right people to head the constitutional monarchy. Queen Victoria in her period was the right head of state, and she also had Albert, the Prince Consort, who, if he had lived, would have made a big difference because he was a very, very high-class statesman...
ENGAGED. Stuart Symington, 76, first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and telegenically handsome, four-term Democratic Senator from Missouri who, he said, graduated from politician to statesman when he retired in 1976; and Ann (Nancy) Hemingway Watson, 59, widow of Arthur K. Watson, an IBM executive and a son of its founding father. The wedding, in June, will be the second for each...