Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, India, and three other nations boycotted the opening meeting of the group. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge proposed to the 18-nation Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that it set up two separate study groups--one on the scientific and the other on the legal aspects of the subject...
...Ordered Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy to call in British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, notify him that the U.S. was weary of continuing British complaints about the high-level flights-flown in the interests of the West-and intended to continue them...
Target No. 1. Out of concern for ruffled French feelings, the U.S. and Britain held off from recognizing Touré's independent state. Communist Bulgaria sent Guinea its first full-fledged ambassador. The Soviet Union followed soon after. By last week, things had gone so far that a U.S. State Department official grimly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Guinea had become Communism's No. 1 target in Africa. Touré has channeled at least a third of his total trade (chief exports: bananas, peanuts and coffee) to Eastern Europe...
...white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns, pistols and other trappings of rebellion from an outboard-motor boat to a shrimp boat...
Godkin Lecturers of recent years have included ex-President of the University James Bryant Conant, British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, and former ambassador to India Chester Bowles...