Word: cannoned
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Athens. Replacing Cavendish Cannon, named first U.S. ambassador to Morocco (TIME, July 23): George Venable Allen, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Troubleshooter Allen, onetime North Carolina schoolteacher and newspaper reporter (Asheville Times), longtime (26 years) Foreign Service officer, has had delicate assignments before-as ambassador in Iran (1946-48) when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions...
North Africa. Assigned to Rabat, capital of newly free Morocco as the first U.S. ambassador: Cavendish Welles Cannon, 61, onetime schoolteacher, longtime Foreign Service careerman and specialist on the Balkans and Middle East, since 1953 U.S. Ambassador to Greece. Shy, hard-working Cavendish Cannon will have plenty to do at Rabat. In prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western...
...months of joint search by FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin and the Chicago district for a strong president capable of commanding the respect of affiliated bankers, yet not so independent-minded as to cause the Washington FRB difficulties. Illinois-born and Dartmouth-educated, Allen was president of Campbell, Wyant & Cannon Foundry Co. of Muskegon, Mich, which was acquired by Textron, Inc. this year...
About 5 p.m., above the firing and the rioting, the low rumble of tanks was heard. Army reinforcements (one observer counted 36 tanks and armored cars) had come to the rescue of the embattled security guards. The tanks opened fire on the armed workers with machine guns and cannon, killing many. Cannon were set up in Freedom Square, and tanks soon commanded every tactical point in the city. Truck-borne soldiers began mopping up the side streets. Some Polish soldiers had no heart for the job. "You have nothing to fear from us," a soldier was heard shouting...
Minnesota: John C. Hiebert of Adams and Mountain Lake; Missouri: Donald C. Cannon of Kirkland and Independence; Charles L. Edson of Dunster and University City; and Lewis M. Schneider of Winthrop and Clayton; New Hampshire: Robert A. LIoyd of Kirkland and Exeter...