Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refueling charges were concerned, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl E. T. Smith declared flatly that "the base has not and will not refuel or in other ways service Cuban military aircraft engaged in military operations." But the charges were beside the point. The kidnapings were obviously to get publicity and make Batista look ineffective. In forcing the U.S. to negotiate directly with them for the prisoners' release, the rebels readily accomplished their purpose of the moment...
...Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide, who refused to disturb Ambassador George Middleton. Schemes agley, Randolph Churchill ordered a seat on a London-bound plane leaving within the hour, gave his thought for the day to bystanders: "Do you know, tomorrow...
...treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
...father's side, of the late Brooklyn-born hardware heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, one of Italy's wealthiest men; and Clemente Lequio, 33, widower, father of an eight-year-old child, son of a onetime Fascist Italian ambassador to Spain; in secret, in Rome. Often mentioned as a possible mate for Belgium's bachelor King Baudoin, Princess Sandra met Insurance Man Clemente five weeks ago, married him in defiance of her family, which had called rumors of the match "grotesque...
Married. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies, 71, Washington hostess, Post Toasties heiress worth nearly $100 million, who in 1937 went to Moscow as the wife of the late (TIME, May 19) Joseph E. Davies, then U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where she lavishly displayed the graces of capitalism to admiring comrades; and suave, silver-haired Herbert A. May, 66, senior vice president of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Air Brake Co., a lustrous host and lover of good clubs, who, according to friends, "spends money beautifully" and carries himself "as if he were posing for his own statue...