Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital of Rennes for its 44th annual fair, France's largest agricultural exposition. Some 1,200 exhibitors from 21 nations displayed their wares at the pennant-draped fairgrounds, and they included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped by the local Franco-American institute to open an exhibition of works by five American painters (Lester Johnson, Harry Nadler, Robert Natkin, Frank Roth, William Wiley). Looking over the abstract canvases, Shriver cracked: "Every year brings artistic...
...outpacing the diplomatic efforts to find a settlement. Representatives of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France met again in New York last week, but their discussions will be made more difficult by the indecision now attending French foreign policy. Bilateral negotiations in Washington between State Department officials and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin are more crucial. In this case, Washington's diplomats are negotiating in the presence of a third party that is, as it were, looking over their shoulders: the U.S. Jewish community, which is deeply concerned that Israel's interests might be subordinated in a search...
...fumbling attempts at espionage and sabotage led to his expulsion. As a postwar politician, his machinations finally gained him the chancellorship in 1932, whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found himself superseded. He then served the Führer, first as Vice Chancellor and later as ambassador to Turkey until war's end, when he was convicted of being a major Nazi offender and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. His sentence was later reduced to two years...
...units, and boldly passed over senior pro-Acción officers to pick his Defense Minister. When the army's top general, Pablo Antonio Flores, openly grumbled, Caldera abruptly removed him from active service and now plans to send him into what Latin Americans call "golden exile" as ambassador to a Central American country...
...fund-raising activities have paid off $2,000,000 (including a settlement on an $85,000 bill from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby was killed); Democratic Party resources will take care of most of the rest. Though Ethel will never be less than a wealthy woman, the burdens of being sole head of a large family have nicked into her personal fortune as well. "Ethel spends pretty freely," says a friend, "but now she's going to have to watch it." Accordingly, she has quietly disposed of some family stock, sold a few paintings and trimmed...