Word: bottom
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...week any more than did the State Department. But Washington's conduct of foreign affairs-and the conduct and competence of U.S. ambassadors-is more important than ever, as is made clear in this week's Essay on the intricate and much-maligned institution known as Foggy Bottom...
...representational function, the State Department by general consensus rates high. Its ambassadors are able. Three-fourths of them are careermen, and of the political appointees, none are like the blundering, bottom-pinching misfits who have sometimes embarrassed the U.S. in the past. With the revolution of transportation and communication, ambassadors enjoy almost instant backup from Washington, which sometimes cuts into their freedom of action but also relieves them of weighty decision-making beyond their official competence. More often than an ambassador may like, someone senior to him (including the Secretary) may jet practically into his embassy's backyard...
...also logical to presume that Castro decided a liberal emigration policy could reduce internal tension. Economically this has been one of Castro's worst years; he concentrated on a huge increase in sugar exports the season the bottom dropped out of the sugar market...
...King had changed, and everyone in Brussels noticed it; he seemed sportier, more dashing-but he kept blinking. Tired of looking owlish, Belgium's myopic King Baudouin, 35, had doffed his familiar bottle-bottom glasses after 20 years, got himself fitted for contact lenses. MORE GLAMOUR FOR BAUDOUIN, cheered the Flemish weekly Zondag Morgen. There were no cheers from Treasury officials, who had to figure out what would become of those millions of stamps and 20-franc notes featuring the King's bespectacled old image...
...leadership. Senator Everett M. Dirksen (R.-III.) demanded a Congressional inquiry into the temporary suspension of funds. Speaking at a news conference in Chicago, Dirksen suggested that the Senate Committee on Labor, Education, and Welfare take up the matter and declared that he was "going to get to the bottom of this." Rep. Roman C. Tucinski (D-Ill.) asked the General Accounting Office -- the watchdog over distribution of federal funds -- to investigate the legality of withholding funds under the Civil Rights...