Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries. Surely U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, who had to flee for his life in Baghdad [Dec. 29], was not there of his own volition. What facts were disclosed in the go-minute meeting between Mr. Rountree and General Kassem that were not already known to U.S. Ambassador Gallman and which could have been transmitted to Washington in a diplomatic pouch...
Technically, Mikoyan and his son Sergo, 29, were guests of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov-not the U.S.-and "Smiling Mike" Menshikov shepherded them through customs, bundled them into a Cadillac at the head of a procession of five embassy cars. The procession skipped the announced stop at the Russian U.N. delegation headquarters in Manhattan so as to avoid demonstrations by New York's Red-hating refugees, sped across New York City and on down the New Jersey Turnpike, escorted by cops and two cars full of U.S. newsmen...
With a press of a button, the wife of the U.S. ambassador started the fountains going, and one by one, led by Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira, the distinguished guests made their way by the dancing water. They mounted the great marble steps, crossed the terrace paved with smooth white pebbles from the banks of the Ganges, passed beyond a series of slender golden columns, and disappeared behind the great golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through...
Compared to the other new embassies in the diplomatic enclave of New Delhi set up by Nehru, it is. About the only people who ever had any serious objections to it were its chief occupants, Ambassador and Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker. Bunker, a man of conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs...
...front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind. One, "Slava," was a psychiatric case. They had one thing in common: they were kept as jumpy as drug addicts...