Word: statesmanly
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...Richard Nixon, the visits were an opportunity to indulge in his favorite subject, foreign relations, and perhaps also to divert his attention-and the public's-from the roiling problems of Watergate. Indeed, almost any foreign statesman passing through town seemed welcome in the Oval Office. No sooner had Tanaka departed than President Albert-Bernard Bongo of the tiny West African republic of Gabon arrived for a chat with Nixon...
Died. Eddie Condon, 67, jazz guitarist, bandleader and elder statesman of the Dixieland style, who was often called the father of the improvisational "Chicago school" of jazz; after a long bout with cancer; in Manhattan...
...decision to keep Amalrik in prison is part of a stepped-up Soviet campaign against "liberal" intellectuals. Only last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact...
...before red-shirted Smokey took over the running of the war with the Norris Avenues. "I'm trying to get out of it," he says, "but Norris says they're gonna kill me, so I might as well stay in for the self-protection." Big Bosco, elder statesman in search of retirement, is 18 years...
Nixon is still, after all, the world's top statesman, in command of the most powerful military machine (which the Soviets still respect) and the most productive economic apparatus (which they want to duplicate). And Nixon last week was in his special arena. He is awfully good at summitry. He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams. The press and the public were far enough away not to bother, and Nixon could spar with Brezhnev even while signaling that...