Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With many a pear-shaped preachment, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins has built a reputation as a civil rights statesman, won favorable mention as a Southern moderate who might do nicely as a Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1960. But Collins' practice falls far short of his preachment: not once during his three years as Governor has he proposed even a token program for admitting Negro children to white classrooms in Florida's 100%-segregated public school system...
Soon to become an honored statesman at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was making top-of-his-head problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...
...this was no sign that Mao was now calling the tune in the Communist world, or, as London's pinko New Statesman put it, that "Communism has two capitals, two spokesmen of equal weight." It suggests that Mao is a drag who on occasion has to be heeded. A nation of 600 million cannot be treated like Bulgaria...
More than anything else last week, Kubitschek's cable dramatized his strong new stand as a pro-West world statesman. Until recently, he had taken pains to avoid offending his country's politically powerful supernationalists. and his government seemed to be drifting into murky neutralism. But after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned in Lima and Caracas, Kubitschek wrote personally to Ike to urge a rebuilding of Pan Americanism. He sponsored an International Investments Conference at Belo Horizonte, accepted resignations of several foot-dragging Cabinet members, replaced them with men dedicated to sensible collaboration with foreign capital...
...King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...