Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's annals. But occasionally no one person seems to dominate current history as much as the embodiment of a group. TIME found this to be the case in 1950, during the Korean War, when the Man of the Year was neither a general nor a statesman but the American Fighting Man. It was so in 1956, when our choice was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, who briefly and tragically rose against Soviet power, inaugurating (as we now know) a new era in Europe...
...General de Gaulle, the only world leader today who has any idea what it is to be a statesman...
...most of the twoscore crowned heads listed in The Statesman's Year-Book fulfill a real function. In part, their significance is upheld by an old ally in a new guise: nationalism. The more closely peoples are brought together by high-speed communications and economic interdependence, the more they seem to react by turning inward to their national traditions. And to embody the sense of national integrity and unity when the going is tough, a king can do things that a President or a Prime Minister cannot...
...only $64 million last month. Meanwhile, the production index in October fell 3%, worst plunge in four years. Capital investment is declining, primarily because businessmen lack confidence in the economic future. Even Wilson's best friends have begun to tell him off. Last week the Socialist-leaning New Statesman called his deflationary policy "the most reactionary kind of bankers' philosophy," and asked rhetorically: "How long can we afford Harold Wilson...
...rude to Kennedy, is a proposition on the November ballot for voter approval of Lindsay's new civilian-dominated police-review board, which has come under heavy attack by conservatives who consider it a crimp in police efficiency. Lindsay and Kennedy, together with New York's elder statesman, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, have joined forces to support the board. It is the kind of impeccable cause that neither of the look-alike liberals can afford to pass...