Word: consulant
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...Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese see how decent and generous the Americans really...
...Jerusalem's mosques, spread all over the country. In the city sacred to three religions, mobs pushed through the Damascus Gate, singing and shouting slogans against the Baghdad pact and for immediate elections. Once again Palestinian refugees were in the mob's forefront. Gangs attacked the U.S. consulate, and for the second time in a month tore down the Stars and Stripes and trampled it in the street: Marine guards and Vice Consul Slator Blackiston drove the hooligans away with tear gas and pistols...
...alarm, King Hussein fired his new government just 72 hours after it had taken office, and dissolved Parliament. But instead of mollifying the rioters, his action seemed to embolden them. The U.S. consulate in the Jordanian half of Jerusalem was attacked for a second time in a week. The American flag was hauled down from a 30-ft. pole and trampled in the streets. Then the mob swarmed on the French consulate; the consul held off the crowd with a submachine gun. At the Turkish consulate, a 14-year-old boy was killed in the garden, and a 16-year...
...rhythm of life." It was not until he was 35 that he felt "a spring released in my life" and he first began to write poetry. Now he looks back with pleasant reminiscence on the years as a clerk in a bones-to-charcoal factory, as British consul in Prague, as headmaster of a workingmen's school, and as head of a British education program in Czechoslovakia...
Hemingway told of how the Swedish consul in Cuba called him at his home in San Francisco do Paula yesterday as soon as news of the Nobel judges' decision had arrived. He then immediately sent Laxness a telegram saying "Truest congratulations and best wishes to an excellent writer...