Word: ambassador
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...much to Treasury's surprise, has also heeded the arguments of Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, who supports IDA, but also wants the U.S. to handle some foreign aid through the U.N. Last year Lodge won the President's approval for a U.S.-sponsored "U.N. Special Fund," which provides modest sums for pre-investment surveys in underdeveloped countries, also for technical training. Since then, the U.S. has contributed $5,000,000 to the U.N. Special Fund. Lodge now believes that this U.N. Special Fund is the logical mechanism for U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperation in foreign...
...farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided to turn his planned small country luncheon for the Khrushchev party over to a Des Moines caterer. Most overtaxed solo performer of all: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assigned by the President to be Khrushchev's official host, ready to answer, parry or debate any of the unpredictable Khrushchev public thrusts...
Bonsai's strategy is the same that he used effectively in 1956 as ambassador to Colombia to show his coolness toward then-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: letting the snubs fall on a mere charge d'affaires. Just as Castro learned Bonsai's plans, a Washington News editorial reprinted in Havana drove home the message: "There is a point where patient tolerance becomes obsequious humility...
Splendid & Shameful. The outstanding feature of James Conant's long (1933-53) reign as president of Harvard was his interest in education-notably public schools. Among besieged educators, he was well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...
...Action (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). U.N. Ambassador Lodge will pass the word on Khrushchev's visit and the approaching General Assembly sessions...