Word: sukarnoism
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Over His Head. The week began with a call on new neighbors across Lafayette Square from the White House: the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command, dedicating an eight-story headquarters at 815 Sixteenth Street. The next day Ike wrote a godspeed message to departing Indonesian President Sukarno, hoped Sukarno "found what you sought in America as a state of mind and as the center of an idea." That afternoon he squeezed in 18 holes of golf at Burning Tree Country Club, that evening joined ten congressional leaders around the Cabinet table for a solemn 80-minute discussion on the foreign...
Taking the U.S. to his bosom in grand campaign style, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno continued his whirl through the East. At Thomas Jefferson's grave at Monticello, Moslem Sukarno lifted his hands, murmured a prayer (he explained later) "that God give him the best place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf...
...When Sukarno arrived in Washington, reported the New York Times last week, his handshaking and baby-bussing technique so impressed Motion Picture Association Boss Eric Johnston that Johnston quipped to Mrs. Richard Nixon: "This fellow has out-Nixoned Nixon!" Retorted Pat Nixon: "Dick told him to do that...
...good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife in 1942 for childlessness and married pretty, 18-year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted four wives, emancipation-bound Indonesian women call Sukarno a "bigamist," sniff at Heriati as "That Woman," idolize patient Wife No. 2 (who is suing for divorce...
...counted-a demand which some of Asia's prideful new nations resented and resisted. The Korean war is long over, and it is time to dismantle some of the framework it imposed. A welcome sign of change: Washington's cordiality to Indonesia's neutralist President Sukarno (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...