Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honoré Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait is in the Louvre, a second in his native Grasse, and the third (see color page), newly acquired, in San Francisco...
...Excellency, U Win, Burmese Ambassador to the United States, will not be able to speak Monday as planned, the Divinity School announced yesterday. He was scheduled to discuss "The Buddhist Concept of Law and Order...
Confronted with this setback, Ben-Gurion's ministers suddenly began to have second thoughts about raising taxes. And to bolster up his own apathetic party, the Premier called home articulate, erudite Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that...
...down on the side porch of his villa outside Havana one afternoon to get acquainted with new U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai. "Friendly, cordial and knowledgeable about Cuba," said Castro. "A good ambassador...
...Imperialism's Vile Claw." The day Bolivia's 670 copies of TIME arrived by air, they were taken by special order straight to the palace of President Hernán Siles Zuazo, whose ambassador in Peru, getting the magazine a day earlier, had alerted him. Siles made the story the topic of a six-hour Cabinet session, then issued a statement blasting the remark as "damaging to the national honor" and "absolutely inadmissable." The statement gave the Bolivian public to understand that the remark had been put forth as a serious proposal...