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...power and their awareness of its limitations, an unexampled opportunity to confront and assess one another. Neither Lyndon Johnson nor Aleksei Kosygin has ever won high acclaim as a diplomatist, but their first encounters proved that both men are as equally equipped for such a conference as any two statesmen the two nations have yet fielded simultaneously...
Arthur Krock, LL.D., retired New York Times columnist. A scholarly chronicler of scheming statesmen and listless legislators, a dignified recorder of democratic dreams...
...difficult for painters in this ' day to do heroic portraits," says Artist Sidney Nolan. "But it is easier to do them of poets and artists than of statesmen." He attempted to make his cover portrait of Poet Robert Lowell heroic by crowning the sorrowful head with a triumphant wreath of laurels. Nolan is a close friend of Lowell's, but he says that his picture is of the poet, not the friend. "I could do another aspect of him for the back cover of the magazine, like the other side of a coin. It would be just...
Headed by Gaylord Parkinson, until recently California Republican chairman, the Nixon staff moved into a freshly whitewashed four-story building decked out with plush royal blue carpeting, flattering photographs of Nixon smiling with assorted statesmen, and Dick's new insignia, a white N-shaped bolt of lightning on a blue and red background. For his working staff, Parky, 48, has assembled a bright-looking thirtyish headquarters crew that seems to make up in zeal what it lacks so far in experience...
...Epic). In the first wave of the British invasion came the nattily dressed Dave Clark Five, now elder statesmen of rock 'n' roll. They seem to have a steady following for their hoarsely shouted banal laments-but then they deal with eternal problems, e.g., I been away too long; you don't want my lovin'; how can I tell you it's over...