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...headed for the very area of East Pakistan that was devastated last year. Then it changed direction, but the satellite forecast well in advance that it was headed for Orissa. "The authorities seem always caught unawares by calamities, even when they are at least partially foreseeable," said the Statesman, one of India's leading dailies. "The traditional attitude of resignation to the caprices of nature seems totally out of tune with modern times." At week's end a new cyclone was ominously brewing in the bay, which seems to be an inexhaustible spawning ground of misery...
Most of the men who shaped the postwar world are gone-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle. This week, barring a last-minute change in plans, a VIP helicopter will touch down on the south lawn of the White House and out will step a statesman who has earned a place alongside those formidable figures: President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia...
From Anathema to Statesman. He might have responded sooner but for the fact that shippers had cautioned him to keep hands off. They were worried that I.L.W.U. President Harry Bridges might lose control of his union if the Federal Government got involved. Once anathema to management because of his fiery radicalism and flirtation with Communism, Bridges is now respected as a labor statesman. In recent years he has agreed to eliminate featherbedding in return for more job security and fringe benefits. Because of his new stance. Bridges is now under attack from militants within the union. Alarmed over the decline...
...Baby Doc" is the youngest President and most implausible statesman in the world. His country, with its 3.5 to 5 million wretchedly impoverished black and mulatto peasants -no one knows exactly how many there are-has long been a pariah of the Western Hemisphere, ripe for almost any sort of political chaos. Thus when he assumed office after his father's death in April, Baby Doc was widely voted the Pooh-Bah least likely to succeed. However, Baby Doc-or at least the government that operates in his name-has presided over five months of unlikely tranquillity and even...
...time she got back to London, work offered more appeal than Oxford. To fill her mind, she practiced French, Middle English, Latin and Russian. To fill her fridge, she turned out witty, informed theater and cinema essays for such respected journals as the New Statesman and The Observer...