Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHILE statesmen and strongmen cope with readily visible political crises, the economic tides that lift or swamp them often begin their flow unnoticed. Across the Atlantic, the European boom that refused to bust during the U.S.'s recession months is now threatened by a downturn. Across the Pacific, Red China, out to dominate Asia politically and economically, has declared open economic war on Japan, perfecting an art in which the Japanese themselves once excelled: dumping cheap goods onto Southeast Asian markets. The deep-running courses of these economic tides are analyzed in FOREIGN NEWS: Threat of Recession and Squeeze...
...virgins and statesmen, your honor
...reassuring to learn of the truly simple life that one of our statesmen, with his wife, enjoys, if only occasionally, in a completely primitive setting by recharging his depleted energies in such fashion. Such men's motives are to be trusted, for they are going to the source of life for their strength...
...avoided, such meetings should occur, if at all, at the end of the negotiating process, and for the purpose of formalizing agreements already arrived at, rather than at the beginning and as a means of starting the wearisome process of accommodation ... It is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...correspondent: "It's the sort of tragedy that always waits around the corner for a man who puts his public life first. We were so close. I tried to appoint a crown prince, but everybody wanted somebody in the direct line. We had several meetings with our elder statesmen. They appealed to my sense of duty and patriotism. This is always my weak point. Who knows? Maybe deep inside of me I also wanted a son and heir. Maybe some egoistic motive influenced my decision. I can't deny it. I don't know...