Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long run, Clare Luce's major diplomatic achievement may well be the warm kinship she built up for herself and her nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half...
Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...
...been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily contacts with U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare and Soviet Ambassador Eugeny D. Kiselev...
...burly Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Jacob Malik, popped up at a London reception with his right hand in a bandage, accepted scattered condolences but offered no explanations. The Soviet Embassy later unhelpfully allowed: "Maybe it was a skin irritation...
When her husband died eleven months ago, Mrs. Charles Ulrick Bay, widow of the former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, found herself with 71% of the stock in Wall Street's venerable (since 1865) brokerage firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. Inc. But the New York Stock Exchange requires, in effect, that a stockholder who owns more than 45% of a member company's shares must either 1) sell the stock, or 2) take an active part in the firm. Since she always had an active interest in her husband's business and philanthropic dealings...