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...downright dull. Hayakawa answered questions about his age with an allusion to his ancestral homeland: "Before World War II in Japan they killed off all the older politicians. All that were left were the damn fools who attacked Pearl Harbor. I think that this country needs elder statesmen too." If that rather strained analogy does not help, the age issue is reduced by the fact that he still tap-dances and fences...
...expiating missions of statesmen, clerics and professional men intrigue Auchincloss, that of moral and aesthetic critic, described by a minor character, holds for him the greatest interest...
...World Restored, you wrote that "statesmen often share the fate of prophets"-that they're without honor in their own country. Do you feel that you're suffering this fate...
Almost all the statesmen will seize the occasion to do some bilateral negotiating. Hundreds of such meetings will take place (though nowhere near as many as the potential maximum of 1,190, presumably). Ford is expected to confer at least twice with Brezhnev, for instance, about the SALT II negotiations and the currently stalled Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna. Chancellor Schmidt has let it be known that he hopes to see every Eastern European party leader, starting with Brezhnev, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. Giscard and Wilson...
While Ford has parleyed with Brezhnev and Wilson and a dozen other statesmen, he counts a couple of his most memorable moments as the night he sat in Boston's Old North Church to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride and the evening of July 4 when he stood in Baltimore's Fort McHenry and gazed at the Stars and Stripes and heard the cannons rumble out over the bay. His favorite newspaper may be the Grand Rapids Press, which he scans for news of his friends. When the mother of an old acquaintance...