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...other respects the man who won the World Council's chief executive post last week outdid both of Wallace's fictional contenders. He is Philip Alford Potter, 51, a Methodist from the West Indian island of Dominica. By geography and persuasion he is a Third Worlder. He is also black...
...American temperament, it is unlikely that this unsmiling advice will be taken. It even raises the possibility that only in Brazil would Toynbee's safety be assured, for he found Brazilian nationalism "ironic and lighthearted." But his point, though indelicately made, is clear enough. To a passionate one-worlder, the sight of nationalism in action is dreary at best. And as a champion of religion, Toynbee would replace the statues of the national liberators with "replicas of theChrist of the Andes and pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...training. U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, the best talent scout in the education business, suggested Saltonstall, and Shriver happily landed his man. Saltonstall's decision was "something way down in your gut that says 'yes,' " he explains. "I'm not a 'save-the-worlder,' but I deeply believe in the Peace Corps approach to furthering the ideals this country stands...
...segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled altogether too far from the pea patch. Already, Fulbright is known caustically as "the Senator from Timbuctoo...
When Sutton talks about Kefauver, which is most of the time, he talks tough. Some of his charges are extravagant, but they are hard on Estes. He accuses Kefauver of being "leftish," and a one-worlder. Sutton has also made race an issue by quoting from a Negro newspaper that reported Kefauver as saying during his futile 1952 presidential bid that there would be no segregation if he were elected. Says Sutton: "We don't know if that's still the way he feels. He hasn't said. He was running for President then...