Word: clare
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...your story on the resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Italy [Dec. 3], the monarchist (but emphatically not fascist) press has indeed commented upon her departure. The monarchist magazine Candido, edited by Giovanni Guareschi (creator of The Little World of Don Camillo), said...
Free to speak frankly over Congress' perennial failure to cough up adequate funds for Foreign Service personnel, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce told a Manhattan audience that such legislative parsimony is "folly to the point of national suicide." Said Mrs. Luce: "When you think of the billions that we have spent abroad to prevent our own atomic annihilation, it seems folly to deny a comparatively small sum to the very service which is working hardest to prevent...
Close to the Ideal. What Clare Luce did not know about the art of diplomacy she learned-fast. Sometimes working around the clock at her office in the Palazzo Margherita, she dealt with policy problems, administered consulates and agencies with staffs of more than 1,600. She traveled over 30,000 miles inside Italy, visited more than 30 Italian cities, popped up in towns and villages where ambassadors are never seen, launched ships, opened universities. In a recent two-month period, she saw 69 state visitors and 416 members of U.S. congressional groups, entertained hundreds of other dignitaries...
...long run, Clare Luce's major diplomatic achievement may well be the warm kinship she built up for herself and her nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half...
Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...