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...America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...
...been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally caught up with him, and the Steelworkers' David J. McDonald, 62, whose image in the locals was that of the soft-living "labor statesman" negotiating at the 19th hole in management's country clubs. Their successors, Paul Jennings, 47; and I. W. Abel, 57, are men of ability, but not likely to furnish imaginative new leadership...
India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 86, who quit the Congress to found the Swatantra Party, fears that one day the Congress and the government might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...
...facility for making friends, so Malvina Hoffman, daughter of English-born Pianist Richard Hoffman, combined both, carved herself a career as a fashionable sculptor. Rodin, Gutzon Borglum, Ivan Mestrovic were her teachers; Mrs. E. H. Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series at Chicago...
Matters of Degree. Despite all this, there seemed little doubt that the President would feel easier with Taylor gone. The freewheeling Texas politician and the austere Army general had little in common. In Saigon, Taylor served loyally, but more as soldier than statesman, with little enthusiasm for coping with the bafflements of Saigon politics. Moreover, there were indeed policy differences, of degree if not of direction, between Taylor and Johnson. During a visit to Washington last month, Taylor is said to have urged that the U.S. decide more clearly how existing troop commitments in Viet Nam are to be used...