Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inscription. Still chipper and wreathed with good humor, the President led a pack of newsmen and celebrity hounds through some two dozen national exhibits of goods and crafts at the fair. He talked with Polish Ambassador Romuald Spasowski about Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish hero who fought in the Revolutionary War. Said Ike: "I always think of the quotation [on the Kosciuszko statue across the street from the White House]: 'And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell.' But I can never pronounce the name [kosh-tchoosh...
...skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this," and handed the paperweight to his aide, Major John Eisenhower. Of all the exhibits...
Multiple Choice. McElroy at first said that his deputy's death would have no effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
...received an insistent personal request from President Eisenhower, asking about the fate of eleven U.S. airmen shot down over Soviet Armenia last September, Khrushchev got into his limousine and drove out to the $5,000,000 U.S. exhibition site in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. Accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., who had only an hour and a half's warning to be on hand, and trailed by a horde of Soviet and foreign journalists and an ever-growing crowd of curious workmen, Khrushchev ranged over the bulldozer-torn exhibition area, squeezing under low girders and heaving...
...sign that bygones were bygones, De Gaulle had invited along the popular British Ambassador to France, Sir Gladwyn Jebb...