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From his office on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Walter Franklin George, 78, scholarly dean of the U.S. Senate, found it hard to believe the news he was getting from home. His friends told him that his rank as a statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful...
...Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. George agreed to accept, but did not say when he would take the job. In the hand of an Assistant Secretary of State, the President rushed over a "Dear Walter" letter, praising the Georgian's "great career as a statesman...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty...
...Dragon King's closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother-in-law, he has no title. "Just call me Mister," he told TIME Correspondent Jim Greenfield in Nepal last week. Elder Statesman Jigme told a sad story of modern influences overtaking tiny Bhutan...
Free State. Under Governor MunÕz Marin, Puerto Rico's political innovations have kept pace with the economy. MunÕz is uniquely fitted for island leadership. The son of a famed Puerto Rican statesman, he grew up in Washington, lived for a while as a Greenwich Village poet and intellectual, then returned to Puerto Rico. By hinterlands campaigning for "Bread, Land and Liberty," he developed a powerful backing among the peasant farmhands, and in 1940 became a Senator and an influential leader. In 1948 he became Puerto Rico's first elected governor (and was re-elected...