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Your feature confirms that our leading statesman, Menzies, is of world stature; your cover shows that our leading portrait painter, Dobell, does not make the grade...
...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...
Steadfast Statesman. Above and beyond the clattering typewriters, the telephone calls and his other business-as-usual, there was one momentous personal problem running through Lyndon Johnson's calculating-machine brain. When he arrived in Texas, he told his closest friends and well-wishers that some time during his vacation he would make a final decision on the question of running for the presidency...
...week on a crowded courtyard in the heart of the business district. Underneath a gaudy orange canopy, a gaunt, hawk-nosed old man in a homespun dhoti and sandals talked, beamed when children rushed up to get his autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...virtue of a life spent in high office in Colombia and as the constructive head of the Organization of American States, Alberto Lleras Camargo ranks as Latin America's most creative democratic statesman. He is also a friend and admirer of the U.S., happy that his country is "governed by institutions that have their origin in Philadelphia." In Washington last week for a state visit, President Lleras thus won a special warmth and spoke words of special weight. His subject was the "backwardness" of Latin America-Lleras is too frank to call it "underdevelopment...