Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being a great believer in the power of the press and the perspicacity of Harvard students, I was surprised that even after the CRIMSON gave a somewhat backhanded rave to The Consul attendance at the show has been bordering between the miserable and the discouraging...
This is especially unfortunate because The Consul has received very favorable receptions from those who attended last week's performances. Personally, I thought The Consul to be an impressive production and Miss Blanchard's performance to be magnificent. It would be very disheartening if attendance at coming performances did not improve. Joseph C. Walker...
...witness stand was Ray Lawson, 71, who as Canadian consul general in New York from 1953 to 1955 was the prime mover behind Canada House. Ferreting about, the M.P.s wondered why the Canadian Club, long installed in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...
...basis of this British undergraduates' ditty, French Novelist Romain Gary has constructed a modern fable, and good fables, like nursery rhymes, must command belief. As a man of action (he was a hero of the French air force, is now French consul general in Los Angeles), Author Gary understands this well, has written his story in the idiom of documentary journalism. It is completely successful-one of the best narratives to be published in a long time. The Roots of Heaven has won one of France's highest literary awards-the Prix Goncourt -doubtless for the very French...
France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...