Word: ambassadeur
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...motivations in trying to get the project going are as much personal as they are professional. One of eight children of a Salvation Army preacher and a nurse, Kariuki started his career in marketing. After a decade, eager to work for himself, he and two partners bought Hotel Ambassadeur, the first property in what would become Sarova Hotels. As a successful businessman, he feels a responsibility to the lagging tourism industry; and as a new grandfather and community elder in Kirinyaga, he is conscious of the legacy he will leave. "In some small way," he says, "we want to contribute...
...gesture--half coy and fully arrogant--was that of the philosopher playboy and says much about the man who's exhausted national cynicism by playing Parliament and parading as Ambassadeur extraordinarie at the expense of domestic recovery...
...Diem could not gain his time easily. "Monsieur l'Ambassadeur," he told U.S. Ambassador Donald Heath, "our problems are immeasurable. We must consolidate our administration; we must detect Communist spies left behind by the Viet Minh. We have maybe one million people to evacuate from the North, 50,000 from Central Viet Nam, and 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the frontiers. We have to find all these people land, medical care, food, work and a place to live. We need help...
...Orleans, there was a State reception, with the very corpulent Mayor O'Keefe and other officials standing by. There were bouquets, compliments and invitations for Mademoiselle. For M. 1'Ambassadeur there was an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Loyola University, such as was given to le Maréchal Foch some years ago. Then they set out with Maurice de Simonin, the French consul-general, for the small towns and villages-Donaldsonville, Napoleonville, St. Martinville, New Iberia, in the bayou country...
...sumptuous S. S. Paris of the French Line. Landing at Havre, he was welcomed by the Mayor. Stepping off his train at the Gare St. Lazare, he was embraced by the Military Governor of Paris, sleek General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud. French throngs jammed the station, crying "Vive L'Ambassadeur! Vive Herrick!" Not often does France welcome so tried and sterling a friend as the U. S. Ambassador, Myron Timothy Herrick, who returned, last week, after a long, treacherous illness at his home in Cleveland, to Paris, his other home...