Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before an enthusiastic throng of 8,000 fans, which included the Prince of Wales, the American Ambassador, the leader of the House of Commons, and the London Victoria Military Band, the English won this first gala international meet...
...report on the two-month, 15-nation Mideast tour of Ike Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards (TIME, May 13): Of the $200 million made available to the doctrine for emergency Mideast aid, said Ambassador Richards, he had pledged $120 million on the spot-slightly more than half of it for economic assistance, the rest for "guns, tanks and things of that kind," which will be rushed to the area. Richards' report was followed by a complaint from Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, who had accepted $3,000,000 in Eisenhower Doctrine economic aid, but was nettled by Richards' refusal...
...election. Nonetheless Joe returned to Washington, made it clear that he was no man to be trifled with. Failing in an attempt to block the confirmation of Harvard's President James B. Conant as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. Joe swung again at Ike's Ambassador-designate to Russia, Charles E. Bohlen. He battled away against such respected party leaders as Bob Taft, demanded that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles be called to testify under oath on the Bohlen nomination. Here, Joe got the first whiplash of defeat. This proposal, said Bob Taft in measured tones...
...daytime curfew, and set out to try about 100 "Communists and fellow travelers" under martial law for seeking his overthrow. The U.S. Sixth Fleet wheeled round off Beirut and sailed away for the western Mediterranean, having made its point and enjoyed its shore leave. Eisenhower's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, after a last visit to Israel headed for home. Left glumly isolated and defeated in the first round, the Egyptian and Syrian press and radio suddenly piped down on their inflammatory propaganda against Jordan...
...Achilles on Skyros, a prime example of the later style of Nicolas Poussin, the master of the 17th century revival of classicism in France. Painted in 1656 for the French ambassador to the Vatican, it depicts the climactic moment in one of the liveliest of Greek legends. Young Achilles, dressed as a girl and hidden among the daughters of King Lycomedes of Skyros by his sea-goddess mother to escape his future fate at Troy, has just been tricked-by wily Ulysses-into revealing his identity. The painting shows the king's daughters reveling in necklaces, jeweled belts...