Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunities. In 1964, when the Republicans nominated him for the Senate, the response was electric. Blacks and white liberals flocked to help him. No matter that his opponent, Endicott Peabody, had been an exceptionally liberal governor, and was the more progressive candidate. Brooke lay back, played the statesman, and won the conservative votes with the liberal support to boot...
...statesman is an easy...
...cost of food, which have forced restaurants everywhere to shorten their menus. "The less you offer, the more you have to say about it," says Hewes. Mon Petit, a restaurant in Chicago, devotes a three-line historical note to Chateaubriand beneath the dish named after the 19th century French statesman...
...willing to go even further was John Freeman, London's Ambassador-designate to Washington. Six years ago, when he was editor of Britain's leftwing New Statesman, Freeman wrote that Nixon's record "suggests a man of no principle whatever," one who has "done lasting damage to the conventions of American political life." Freeman now argues differently, saying that Nixon "has proved by his success, and the quite admirable struggle which he has made to achieve it, that he has the qualities of leadership that make him worthy of high office...
When Luis Alberto Ferré, 64, a wealthy, M. I. T. -trained engineer, defeated the PTJ.P. candidate for the governorship two weeks ago, Muñoz waited a week to wish him luck. The 70-year-old statesman also held a post-election press conference to point out the error of Ferré's political ways. Luis Negrón López gave out a premature victory statement early on Election Night, when he was 15,000 votes ahead. When final returns showed him to be the loser by a margin of 390,000 to 367,000, Negr...