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...ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their military skill, but Cromwell flunks as a political strategist. King Alfred is given the palm as "possibly the greatest king England has ever had" for combining admirably the arts of generalship and statesmanship. Tito and De Gaulle are awarded top honors among contemporary leaders who wield both Parliaments and paratroops...
...notion that obesity is due to weak will power is particularly ironic in view of recent political history," Mayer added. "This is the age of the Obese Dictator--Khrushchev, Peron, Tito, Stalin, and Castro are cases in point." He cited Winston Churchill as another example of a willful fat man. "It is amusing," he concluded, "that The Vallant Years, a current TV series on Churchill, is being sponsored by Metrecal...
...politically uncertain new King succeeded him. Morocco's list of state visitors, past, passing and to come, was a small but significant measure of the new stature of Africa in the world's eyes. Russia's President Leonid Brezhnev had just left; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would soon be arriving aboard his state yacht; President Kennedy's personal representative, Averell Harriman, flew in from London; U.S. Special Emissary G. Mennen Williams was slowly working his way up from the heart of Africa...
...NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean Acheson. slapped him down. "Mr. Kennan has never, in my judgment, grasped the realities of power relationships," said Acheson, "but takes a rather mystical attitude toward them." But Tito's Yugoslavia should give Kennan an ideal opportunity to sense the internal rumblings of international Communism...
Longtime Careerist George Kennan, whose tough talk made him persona non grata to the Kremlin and whose "containment" policies made him persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...