Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the varied stuff congressional elections are made of. Such issues call not for statesmen but for mass-mind readers. Top party strategy is still important, but it has to be custom-tailored to fit hundreds of special situations in hundreds of districts. From the sum of all this cutting and trimming and pinning will come the 84th Congress...
...structure of Europe changed last week. In a historic five days, the West's statesmen moved farther and faster than they had in the past two years of frustration and acrimony. West Germany began the week technically still occupied and emerged a proud new sovereign nation. As an earnest of their trust in the new Germany of Konrad Adenauer, the NATO powers welcomed Germany as an equal among equals, and entrusted it with an army which should prove the most formidable component of free Europe's defense...
...formidable array of problems, demands and contradictory claims would still have to be resolved before the new structure could really come into being. This week, the allied statesmen would come to grips with them...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be one of 48 scholars and statesmen to be awarded honorary degrees at Columbia University's third and final Bicentennial Convocation, October...
...harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta's own Statesmen, the local favorites. Among the evening's repertory: Riding the Range with Jesus and Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time up There. As the evening wore on, the program offered more pratfalls than prayers, but the all-white audience loved it, happily munching popcorn and swigging soda...