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According to a recent poll, only 6% of West Germans said they would vote for another leader like him. On the all-time list of effective German statesmen, he is steadily slipping. In 1950, Bismarck topped the list with 35% of the votes, and Hitler received 10%. Three years ago, in the last such sampling, Konrad Adenauer received 60% and Hitler, with 2%, barely edged out Frederick the Great...
Since his election last year as Chancellor of West Germany, ruggedly handsome Willy Brandt has been hailed as one of Western Europe's most charismatic and skillful statesmen. Last week he lived up to his reputation. The longtime Socialist mayor of West Berlin flew into Washington for two days of talks with President Nixon and made a persuasive case for continued U.S. support of his efforts to ease cold-war tensions. He also assured himself of a role in any further discussions about the future of the Continent...
...intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as well as MIRVs. Former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy urged the President to go even farther by ordering a unilateral stand-down in MIRV and ABM deployments for a limited period of time. Perhaps most significant of all, a 14-member committee of senior statesmen and scientists, appointed by the President, reportedly recommended that the U.S. take the initiative at the talks, possibly by proposing a temporary moratorium...
...relative immobility. "With a white executive," says Russell, "if you get to the point where you are reasonably high, then the headhunters, the executive recruiters, are swarming all over you. With blacks, we're either too old, too young and inexperienced, or we're statesmen"-meaning that blacks often have executive perquisites but no real authority. "I would find it difficult." Russell adds, "to say with a straight face to any young black person, 'Come into industry. Everything's fine...
...Judges of the Supreme Court of the land must be not only great jurists, they must be great constructive statesmen...