Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Warsaw negotiators were old hands at the game in which they found themselves. Tall U.S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam, 50. characterized by some of his colleagues as "the stubbornest man in the Foreign Service.'' had, in his time, negotiated with Nazis, Russians. Yugoslavs and Indonesians. Affable. Berlin-educated Wang Ping-nan was a veteran of the 1954 Geneva conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war and of 73 subsequent bargaining sessions in Geneva with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson...
...Bourguiba exploded. He summoned a meeting of the Neo-Destour Party executive, rammed through a vote to ban L'Action. For voting against Bourguiba's wishes, Mohammed Masmoudi, one of the paper's principal shareholders and once Bourguiba's close confidant, was fired as Tunisian Ambassador to France. (His replacement: Habib Bourguiba...
...Paul's last week, Abdie made friends quickly. He will study general science, French, English, Latin and algebra. But what he likes best is to read, and St. Paul's library stacks made his eyes pop. Ambitious and happy, Abdallah now wants to become Moroccan Ambassador to Washington "because," he quips, "I'm weak in mathematics...
...towering pinnacle of bridge success, Charlie Goren has plenty to keep him busy, aside from playing bridge: his syndicated column (he writes it himself, in longhand), a regular department in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, trips abroad as a sort of U.S. ambassador to overseas bridgedom, 10,000 letters a year from bridge fans (many include ticklish bridge problems, but with the help of his staff he answers them all), and a venture called Goren Enterprises, which licenses manufacture of such items as a card-table cover with rules of the game printed on it and cocktail napkins decorated with cartoons and useful...
...fact, the Warsaw talks have merely shown the double standard the U.S. employs in dealing with the regime which governs more people than any other. We will send an ambassador to parley with Red China's, but we will not recognize the Communist government. Although we officially dispute Red China's claim that the quarrel over the coastal islands is an internal affair, we do not recognize the Communists as a separate belligerent, but rather as a faction temporarily in control of the mainland...