Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighbor. In Seattle, as Australian Ambassador Howard Beale entered the city in a police-escorted limousine, a man in another car drew alongside, gestured for Beale to open a window, shouted: "I thought you'd like to know there's a state cop following...
...Soviet note was careful not to denounce the 1945 Potsdam agreement outright. In the face of the determinedly solid Allied resolve to stand fast in Berlin, it included another amendment that let out a lot of the heat that Khrushchev had pumped into his crisis. The Soviet ambassador in Bonn had talked jauntily about Soviet troops leaving Berlin before Christmas. Russia now promised to make no change in Berlin for six months...
...ultimate aim of the Union of South Africa's racial policy is the co-existence of two separate major nations, the white and the Bantu, Wentzel C. DuPlessis, Ambassador from South Africa, said last night in an address to the Law School Forum...
...Racial policy in South Africa," as viewed by the present government, is the subject of tonight's panel in New Lecture Hall at 8:30 p.m. sponsored jointly by the Law School Forum and the U.N. Council. W. C. DuPlessis, Ambassador to the U.S., will speak, followed by a panel discussion led by three faculty members...
...short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened the occasion with incident: Clement XIV (1769-74), for instance, fell from his horse on dismounting, only to assure alarmed aides that he was "confusus" but not "contusus." Sixtus V (1585-90) corrected the flattering observation of an ambassador that he had "mounted easily" with the admonition: "No, we are old and heavy because we have a world on our shoulders...