Word: ambassadors
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OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
...during World War I, joined the investment banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., sold short and made $15 million in a few hours during the market crash of 1929, served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-35) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937)-and was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the ominous years...
...Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim called on France to set aside "narrow nationalism" and use the good offices of his country and Morocco in bringing about a settlement. He asserted France was "completely in error" if it felt that the three-year-old rebellion could be ended through legislative reform...
...smaller members of the United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...
...agreed to Canas' proposal, got the appointment okayed by Pepe ("Still the most wonderful man I've ever met") and settled into a seat on the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee until the Eleventh General Assembly session ended last March. For her successor in the current session, Ambassador Canas found someone of equal qualifications and charm. His choice: New York-born Karen Olsen de Figueres, 27, President Figueres' wife since...