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Harvard's increased recognition of statesmen, scientists, or educators can be traced to the change in character of the College as a whole. No longer a training school for the Congregational ministry. Harvard has evolved almost steadily toward greater variety of interests--and this has been reflected in the distribution of honoraries given out each June...
...funeral of John Foster Dulles was a hero's tribute, the first in the nation's history to be designated by the President as an "official" funeral. Gathered at Arlington National Cemetery was the greatest assemblage of foreign statesmen and diplomats ever to attend the burial of a U.S. citizen...
...gathering of the statesmen was movingly symbolic of what John Foster Dulles had become in the eyes of the world: not only the Secretary of State of the world's greatest power, but a champion and spokesman of the entire free world in its struggle with Communism, and a warrior for peace and freedom...
...second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason for his decision: "It would give some elder statesmen in our party a clear field...
GENEVA, May 31--President Eisenhower was reported to have told Big Four statesmen he looks to a possible series of summit talks where grave East-West disputes can be negotiated...