Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product (1910) of one of the nation's best secondary schools, Roxbury Latin in Boston. In his 303 he was one of the country's most brilliant young chemists. At 40 he became president of Harvard (1933-53). At 60 he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). At 66 he is deep in a third career-teaching Americans about their public schools...
...entered into their "formal" talks; actually, they were warmly informal. The U.S. President and the West German Chancellor kept interrupting one another like old friends. Ike was hugely amused when he put on the earphones over which simultaneous translations were to be made, and got only static; West German Ambassador to U.S. Wilhelm Grewe had dripped fruit juice onto the wiring, causing a short circuit. Eisenhower more than satisfied Adenauer that he was not about to bargain away West Germany's rights in his talks with Khrushchev, that he meant rather to convince Khrushchev of free-world strength...
...News) printed what it called "testimony against that type of journalism that ought to disappear." Part of the testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check...
...military-assistance program, the committee members did some on-the-spot reporting themselves. Chairman Draper, 65, once Army Under Secretary (1947-49) and later top U.S. civilian representative to NATO (1952-53), personally inspected forces in the Korea-Japan-Formosa area. Oilman George Mc-Ghee, 47, an ex-Ambassador, to Turkey (1951-53), and Admiral Arthur Radford, tough-minded ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed Ike an interim report warning that his $1.6 billion budget request for military...
Behind Closed Doors. Some of the personality clues are teasers. Any Capitol reporter knows that North Dakota's Senator William Langer chews cigars in their cellophane wrappers, but who is meant by the honorable gentleman who has love affairs all over Washington? The Indian Ambassador, Khrishna Khaleel, is obviously a scathing caricature of India's Khrishna Menon, but who are the models for 1) the liberal Supreme Court judge who cannot stay out of politics; 2) the tireless adviser to everybody; 3) the meddlesome cardinal...