Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that day on Bob Kennedy, 31, a lawyer with the true prosecutor's instinct for the jugular, has been a formidable pursuer of the bosses of the powerful Teamsters Union. Son of Boston Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy (who was F.D.R.'s ambassador to Great Britain), younger brother of Massachusetts' U.S. Senator John Kennedy, Investigator Bob is an average package (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) full of far more than average energy. At Harvard he played end on the varsity team, though he then weighed only 160 Ibs. As a Navy seaman in 1945, he went...
...Cadillacs and Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
Prayers in the Mosques. The news reached Teheran just as the Shah, a stout friend of the U.S., was conferring at a Caspian resort with Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with full military honors, Iran's government set the diplomatic wires humming with apologies and promises of an all-out mobilization to find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side...
...week's end no tanks had yet attacked the capital, and, in open defiance of Leftist Serraj, Foreign Minister Salah Bitar announced that he had asked ex-Congressman James Richards, Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, to visit Damascus to explain the advantages of the Eisenhower Doctrine. At this point, Colonel Serraj no longer walked like the undisputed king of the jungle...
...After the ceremony he had a last chat with old political friends. Then, taking the name Brother Anselmo, Luis Ignacio Andrade, 63, turned and climbed a flight of stairs to Cell No. 23. Later he will serve a two-year novitiate in Rome, where he was once the Colombian Ambassador to the Holy See. After that he will become a missionary, probably in the Far East...