Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other top politicians assembled at the home of a former Cabinet minister in Paris one afternoon last week. To the astonishment of most of them, the principal guest proved to be Moscow's Ambassador to France-busy, birdlike Sergei Vinogradov, one of the new Soviet breed of laughing-boy diplomats. Even more astonishing was Vinogradov's chosen topic of conversation: maintenance of French power in North Africa...
...Boy Wonder. The big snag in the plan was the top Conservative, tough old (69) ex-President Laureano Gómez. Angry at the moderate wing of his party for supporting his ouster by Rojas in 1953, Gómez ruled its members out of the running as joint presidential candidate, thereby ruled out every top-quality candidate the Conservatives had. Weeks of bickering finally convinced Gómez that Liberal Lleras was the best choice...
Lleras' qualifications for the job are already on record. An able, respected journalist, he became Colombia's "boy wonder" Minister of the Interior (Premier) at 29, stepped up to the presidency ten years later. He served as head of the creaky old Pan American Union after World War II, created the efficient, effective Organization of American States, then was named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications...
...undesirable discharge from the Army and a three-year sentence (suspended) from a Japanese court for killing a woman with an empty cartridge case on a firing range, confided that his Japanese-born wife Candy is expecting a tax exemption in August. Said he: "I think Candy wants a boy, and I certainly...
...flexible term, usually critical, for the British ruling class's ruling class, e.g., the Archbishop of Canterbury and all Anglican bishops, certain peers with long bloodlines, top civil servants, Etonian Tories, staunch monarchists, and Times leader writers, all of whom together constitute what has been called "the old-boy circuit" or "the stately domes of England...