Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Clarence Belden Randall, 76, elder statesman of the steel industry, who was president (1949-53) and board chairman (1953-56) of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., No. 7 U.S. producer, but was better known as a forwardthinking internationalist, championing the Marshall Plan as its first steel ad viser and in 1953 heading Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy Commission which convinced Congress to take a few halting steps to lower U.S. trade barriers; of a heart attack; in Ishpeming, Mich...
...Gibraltar, somewhere in the Atlantic. In Timaeus, he declared that one day the whole population "sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." Plato dated the disaster as 9,000 years before the time of Solon, the Athenian statesman who lived in the 7th century B. C. But modern oceanographers can find no trace of Atlantis-was Plato wrong...
Undisclosed Source. Khrushchev also has words of praise for the late John F. Kennedy: "A real statesman. He completely filled his post. I like the way he -unlike Eisenhower-had his personal opinions on all questions we discussed. Kennedy was entirely different from Eisenhower and had a precisely formulated answer for every question...
Hugh Scott, D.C.L., U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania. He successfully defied the Churchillian dictum, proving that a live politician may be a statesman...
...keeping with the Deutsche Bank's retirement age of 65, Abs has just stepped up to the elder-statesman role of chairman of its supervisory board. To succeed him as Sprecher des Vorstandes, or speaker for its ten-man executive board, the Frankfurt-based bank picked not one but two associates: Karl Klasen, 58, head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship...