Word: consulate
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...back in his native Italy with hopes of a hero's welcome after the big success of his operas on Broadway (TIME, May 1). For the first Italian production of The Consul, La Scala was giving him everything he wanted: a hand-picked cast (including Contralto Marie Powers and Tenor Andrew McKinley from Broad way's Consul), new sets, plenty of rehearsals and free rein with the staging. But instead of garlands, he sniffed garlic. For one thing, some Italians resented the fact that he won his fame...
...fortnight ago the Chase National Bank closed its Hong Kong branch. Hong Kong began to get jittery. Last week the last of Hong Kong's rosy glow faded when U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy advised Americans to evacuate their dependents...
...conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool and to ask, "Can he cite a single instance in which Britain pulled out and left her allies to bear the brunt of battle...
...Verdi, 291 of Richard Strauss and 130 of Wagner, all with fresh sets, since all the old ones were destroyed in the war. In the works for this season are twelve new productions (compared to the Met's three), including Gian-Carlo Menotti's Broadway hit The Consul (TIME...
...goateed Angus Ward, the man who spent a year of harassment and humiliation confined to the U.S. consulate general in Mukden by Chinese Communists, was assigned a new post by the State Department-in Nairobi, Kenya, on Africa's east coast. It was a job which seemed to have nothing to do with Communism or the Far East-the specialities on which he had concentrated in 25 years of foreign service at consulates in Mukden, Tientsin and Vladivostok. Outspoken Careerman Ward was outspokenly disgruntled. He had not even been officially informed of his appointment, he grumbled...