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...bill calls for all ex-presidents to become senators-for-life on the theory that the talent of elder statesmen should not lie fallow after they step down from the White House. The idea isn't new. In the days of President Buchanan the six ex-presidents still alive were known to have favored the scheme...
...meatless Tuesdays. Other questions arise in the minds of solons already nervous about Congressional balance of power should Hawaii send three men to the Capital. Whom would a permanent senator represent? Would his automatic seniority be worthy of consideration in the allotment of committee chairmanships? Would these "older statesmen" break with party affiliation, and/or could they in the teeth of Congressional whips...
...Words alone will not suffice," said Conant in addressing a luncheon of the Boston Conference on Distribution, a national economic forum. To this end, Conant declared that this nation needs businessmen aware of our unique society of free men, and educators who "should be statesmen...
Miszlalcowice Mystery. So last week the world's statesmen (successors to Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, rather than to Pitt and James Madison) were trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin...
...another reply, Foreign Minister Molotov charged the U.S. press with daily "lying and slanderous articles regarding the U.S.S.R. and its statesmen." The Russian Government, he said disingenuously, "cannot bear the responsibility for this or that article, and so much the more, cannot accept the protest you have made." Translated from the Russian, that could mean only one thing: Russia's rulers meant this one for the record...