Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later Queen Frederika told Jack Peurifoy the story. The Ambassador shook his head and said: "I can't tell him that I believe that. I cannot believe that a good and just God would do that to my little boy." And the Ambassador burst into tears. But eventually, as the Queen had advised, he did tell the boy that he believed it was Jesus who had given him this "hardest problem...
...when Jack Peurifoy was U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, he and his two sons were in an automobile accident. Jack Peurifoy and his younger son, a normal, healthy lad then 9 years old, were killed. But Clinton, 14, the spastic, survived-"by one of those forever puzzling strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
...suggestion of worry showed in Chou's handsome, beard-tinged features as he plodded stolidly along the party line. Home from Rangoon, Murrow followed the filmed interview with a live discussion in which Nationalist China's U.N. Ambassador T. F. Tsiang and others meticulously picked apart Chou's words. Rebuttal was unnecessary...
Built and operated by the Tisch Hotel chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
...present Ambassador to the Republic of West Germany, Conant has entitled his three-lecture series "Three Ways of Thinking," with the sub-title, "Some Observations on Germany and the United States...