Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowadays it is a rare occasion that brings Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 93, out for a black-tie evening, but he wanted the pleasure of presenting the President's Citation of the People-to-People Sports Committee to "a little girl" he used to know. She was Joan Whitney Payson, 60, co-owner of Greentree Stable and fairy grandmother of the New York Mets baseball team. The first woman recipient of the Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped...
Speaking to approximately 40 students of the International Student Association, the 62-year old statesman said in response to a question that "my Cuban friends tell me that the Cuban spirit is not dead, that one of the traits of the Cuban spirit is revolution, and that sooner or later revolution must come. I cannot say more than that," he added...
...power well beyond the moment when he should have relinquished it. Ultimately, however, Konrad Adenauer can only be remembered as the German whose idealism and hardheaded grasp of reality in one decade transformed the nature and condition of 20th century Germany. Winston Churchill accurately called him "the greatest German statesman since Bismarck," but even Bismarck's Germany did not rise from the rubble and bitterness of defeat to the position of respect and responsibility that West Germany enjoys today...
...from the career in medicine that his father had planned for him. Walking with him on a fall afternoon, he stops to examine and collect crab apples; he is a farmer. Chatting with him over coffee, he excuses himself to speak to Washington and Caracas; he is a statesman. Probing him on South American politics, he predicts violent change; he is a revolutionary...
...Last week Adenauer, 87, journeyed to Rome in a nostalgic mood to say his goodbyes to President Segni and Pope Paul VI, who presented him with the Vatican's highest decoration, the jeweled chain of the Supreme Order of Christ, which had not been given to a German statesman since Bismarck. Then der Alte headed for Paris and an emotion-fraught farewell visit with Charles de Gaulle, his enthusiastic collaborator in this year's Franco-German treaty of friendship...