Word: statesmanly
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...newsmen at New York's Kennedy Airport had a little trouble with titles when Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 80, arrived with his wife for a three-week visit to the U.S. Some reporters called the indestructible old statesman "Mr.," others "Prime Minister." The Mrs. set them straight. "Ben-Gurion would be the nicest thing," she said. "Prime Minister anyone could be-Ben-Gurion nobody could be." Said B. G. with a smile: "I'm not responsible for her answers." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller got all mixed up too. When...
...daughter, Mrs. Liudmila Gvishiani, 38, and his 19-yearold grandson Aleksei, took the entire first floor at Claridge's, from whose haughty marquee flew the hammer and sickle. He dined at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Wilson, who welcomed him as "an old friend, a statesman I personally know to be cool and wise in his judgment, warm in his heart." He met with Britain's top capitalists at the Hyde Park Hotel, mingled with the likes of Mod Designer Mary Quant, Actress Mary Ure and the dip set at Lancaster House, and addressed scarlet robed sheriffs...
...HAMMARSKJOLD: THE STATESMAN AND HIS FAITH by Henry P. Van Dusen. 240 pages. Harper...
...admiring spiritual biography, Theologian Van Dusen argues that there is no incongruity between diplomat and diarist. After studying Hammarskjold's correspondence and talking with scores of his friends and associates, Presbyterian Van Dusen has been able to relate the entries of Markings to the changing moods of the statesman's life...
...year's annals. But occasionally no one person seems to dominate current history as much as the embodiment of a group. TIME found this to be the case in 1950, during the Korean War, when the Man of the Year was neither a general nor a statesman but the American Fighting Man. It was so in 1956, when our choice was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, who briefly and tragically rose against Soviet power, inaugurating (as we now know) a new era in Europe...