Word: statesmanly
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Says Alfred Renton Bridges (every one calls him Harry), for 30 years the controversial boss of West Coast dock workers, in his Australian cockney accent: "If someone wants to get me out of this job, the best way would be to call me a 'labor statesman.' " Yet that, in effect, is what a lot of people who do not want him out of his job are calling him nowadays. Examples...
...call him a labor statesman...
...space under a false name on a flight to Paris. Only after Karamanlis and his wife had departed did his National Radical Union get the word. Stunned, they elected a new party chairman and took whatever comfort they could from a letter their leader had left behind: "When a statesman knows what is best for his country but cannot carry it out, he must, instead of compromising with his conscience, retire...
...Didn't Hear. Lehman long ago achieved the stature of a vastly admired Democratic elder statesman and humanitarian. For his lifelong efforts...
...African statesman," allows Guinea's President Sekou Touré, "is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists." On the contrary, many of his country's well-dressed officials own sumptuous villas and cars, favor French food, American cigarettes and Scotch whisky (at $18 a bottle). Conakry, Guinea's sweltering capital, has plans for two new luxury hotels-one to be built by the U.S., the other by the Russians. But 'Guinea (pop. 3,300,000), once one of French West Africa's richest countries, after five years of independence has become...