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...avid collector of modern art, Pompidou as Premier yanked down the fusty old portraits of Richelieu, Colbert and other ancient statesmen and filled his office walls with splashy Soulages, Ernsts and Buffets. Later, he replaced the sculptured nymphs in the garden of his offices with a modern sculpture that Culture Minister André Malreaux had recommended as "unknown but remarkable...
...acts of its own people, with little regard for the University as a social force. He treated David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, in the same limited way in a two-part New Yorker profile in 1965. Kahn quoted President Pusey, Rockefeller's banking associates and several statesmen on Rockefeller, and Rockefeller himself on the value of hard work. He did not even approach the question of what it means to be David Rockefeller, billionaire banker. But if all the New Yorker's readers do not know Rockefeller, they know someone who knows him, and for them...
...When statesmen look to give aid to the uncivilized and underdeveloped countries of the world, please let ours be first on their list...
...statesmen of postwar America, the Ibis has often seemed a political anachronism, preaching the same blend of straight talk and good-will that was his banner headline as a youth. But if his message still comes over loud and clear, it is because he has stayed in tune with the youth of today, and because his wisdom and eloquence transcend the tradewinds of political fortune...
Such are some of the nuggets from the cryptologic trove amassed by David Kahn, past president of the American Cryptogram Association. His huge volume shows how the science of cryptology has influenced the course of nations and the fate of rulers and rogues, soldiers and statesmen, poets and pirates. The speed with which the Navy switched codes following the Pueblo crisis is only the latest public indication of cryptology's continuing importance...