Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Mud. With the aplomb of a man who has had such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where...
...East, after V-J day stayed on to organize CAT airline with General Claire Chennault. Squeezed out of control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving to keep himself in trim. In the blue depths off Honduras' Caribbean coast, he hunted unsuccessfully for sunken pirate ships, learned to spear groupers, rockfish and tarpon...
...week of banquets, speeches and plaque dedications, a Presbyterian minister led his congregation in a special service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church. The week-long observance might not have been remarkable except for the rank of some of those who took part, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton, and for the church's location: 65 Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Cabled the President of the U.S.: CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES AS YOU ENTER YOUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE...
...Rishikesh Shaha was stabbed and robbed in Central Park last week, and six of the city's seven major dailies (exception: the Daily News) omitted any racial description of the muggers. But then some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them as a man of "dark complexion...
...housewarming present, the U.S. sponsored the Congress Hall's first week's program: dedication ceremony with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site...