Word: statesmanly
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...Finest Hours is a skillfully assembled and frequently moving sketch of the magnificent statesman-warrior-historian-painter-orator-bully who turned 90 yesterday, Winston S. Churchill. The film has nothing to offer in the way of balanced evaluations of Churchill's place in world history. But it does provide some insight into the qualities of his life...
...club would increase their stature in the eyes of the world. Frank Moraes. astute editor of The Indian Express, reasons that an Indian bomb "would be a moral boost not only for this country but for all the free countries of Asia." And to underline Moraes' contention. The Statesman observed that "only a few weeks ago Ceylon protested against the presence of nuclear-armed...
...choice for chief of state, but because the post was to be occupied by a civilian, Minh would have had to resign from the army. This Minh refused to do at the last moment, so the High Council appointed in his place its own chairman, a fragile elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official...
...humble pharmacist's son has nearly attained the second highest office in the land. One suspects that in his mind's eye Humphrey no longer sees himself solely as the populist-progressive crusader for the downtrodden, but as the Great Articulator for the Great Politician, the premier national statesman. When his audience snickered at a reference to turning the lights off in the White House, Humphrey stopped, smiled broadly, and replied with something less than complete ingenuousness, "That's the least I can do for my President...
Humphrey as majestic statesman was apparent at every platform on which he appeared Thursday night. As he sat waiting for his introduction, he would talk animatedly with Joan Kennedy or Edward McCormack, his handsome face fixed in a handsome smile, and one knew that he knew his smile was handsome and that he was appearing human and at the same time glamorously royal to the masses. As indeed...