Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington...
...country. She died in 1947. In 1957 he married his secretary at Faber & Faber, Valerie Fletcher, a plumply attractive woman nearly 40 years younger. He blossomed. They went dancing, held hands at plays. He even wrote love scenes into his last play, The Elder Statesman (they were eased out by the producer...
...scholarships were established in the will of Cecil Rhodes, British statesman and financier in South Africa. He directed his trustees to set up two groups of scholarships, one for the British colonies and one for the United States...
JULY--Presidents De Gaulle and Johnson meet in Paris in an atmosphere of cordiality to discuss the MLF. Johnson calls De Gaulle a "great statesman with a magnificant understanding of history whose importance to the strength of the West is unquestioned," De Gaulle in reply terms Johnson a "very perceptive leader." Linda and Luci captivate the City of Light by doing the Watusi before the Congolese Embassy. Johnson introduces himself at a state dinner in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles by saying "I am the man who accompanied the Watusi to Paris." Seventeen indignant representatives of nationalistic African countries...
...Making 70 is no time for congratulations," boomed Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies as he celebrated his threescore and ten last week. "It's the end of the road, and nobody will be very excited if I live to be 71." But the acid old statesman with the snow-white mane and beetling black brows did seem to be mellowing after 16 years as Down Under's chief of state. He surprised newsmen with a rare birthday interview, chatted breezily for half an hour, even posed for cameramen before shooing them away with word that...