Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their hot pursuit of headlinemakers, TV's three major news-panel shows have grown so competitive that they are forcing statesmen to new stratagems of diplomacy. When Moderator Oliver Presbrey of ABC's Press Conference began thanking Britain's Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell for having "chosen" to appear in a filmed edition of the show, Gaitskell broke in to ask that he change that to "accepted" the invitation. This phrasing would square him with a future host, CBS's Face the Nation, explained Gaitskell, who added discreetly that he already had promised NBC's Meet...
...time widespread private fears of war had risen to the headlines, and to the public consciousness, the statesmen were beginning to feel that they had affairs under control. Ben-Gurion hastily reversed his talk of the victory's spoils, agreed to withdraw from Sinai. The Anglo-French hastened to comply with the null plea for an early and easy take-over in Suez by a U.N. police force of soldiers from the small powers. The Middle East crisis became a race between the U.N.-trying for a peace before the Russians could intervene-and the Russians, hastening to raise...
...time last week, responsible statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic feared that war was in the making. Messages of alarm shot between Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. U.S. armed forces were alerted-not because attack was believed imminent, but in case it was. Out of their mutual concern, the Western alliance, rent by the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, was put back together again. The price: an incomplete victory in Egypt...
...verbal confusion surrounding these proposals, an attempt has been made to cite, as having made "similar proposals," great world figures, even including His Holiness Pope Pius XII. All these men-like this Government, like all responsible and thoughtful leaders in the free world, statesmen or churchmen-are sincerely anxious for international agreement allowing effective control of all armaments...
...January, when the U.S. Senate convenes for the first session of the 85th Congress, the same Southern comet will rise over the national horizon as strapping (6 ft., 196 lbs.) Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave as an actor...