Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crackled as other ships reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France, which had been running at 17 knots 45 miles to the east, had come hard about, kicked up to 22. and promised to reach Andrea Doria within two hours...
Athens. Replacing Cavendish Cannon, named first U.S. ambassador to Morocco (TIME, July 23): George Venable Allen, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Troubleshooter Allen, onetime North Carolina schoolteacher and newspaper reporter (Asheville Times), longtime (26 years) Foreign Service officer, has had delicate assignments before-as ambassador in Iran (1946-48) when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions...
...into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen as Assistant Secretary for the Near East...
...Steve Allen Show (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Judy Holliday, Count Basie, from Manhattan's Birdland...
...land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles Industrialist Allen Chase had formed Territory Rice Ltd., planned to spend at least $90 million turning the Outback into one of the world's biggest rice-producing areas. Their goal: production of 625,000 tons of rice annually, nearly one-half of 1% of the total world supply...