Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means nothing except that the President used an unfortunate phrase. An isolated phrase, however, in no way proves that these are his beliefs, and I think there is a good deal of evidence that Johnson is not an advocate of Fascism. It also seems incredible to damn a public statesman on the basis of a blooper...
...includes such men as Raines, who do seem to understand the need to modernize. "I get letters every day asking why we must get involved in what is termed extracurricular activities, why we can't save souls and let it go at that," says another forward-looking elder statesman, Bishop John Owen Smith of Atlanta, 63. "My answer is that the church has forever been involved in social issues...
...appreciate TIME'S recognition of the vitality and skills of Vice President Humphrey [April 1]. A favorite teacher has become a favorite statesman. Thank heaven for his glands...
...personalities: Labor's Harold Wilson against the Conservatives' Ted Heath. The odds were on Wilson. Gone was the reputation as a slippery opportunist that had hurt him in the 1964 election. Instead, though operating with a bare three-seat majority, Wilson had proved to be an able statesman who could handle his own left wing, was not afraid to slap down raise-happy trade unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months...
Gentle Reminder. The following day could only have added to Fulbright's frustration. After the soldier-scholar came the scholarly statesman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. In a 50-page opening statement that filched 43 minutes of air time from camera-covetous committee members, Rusk argued in dry, dispassionate terms that the entire structure of world peace is endangered by the Communist threat to South Viet Nam. "What we are seeking to achieve," he said, "is part of a process that has continued for a long time-a process of preventing the expansion of Communist domination...