Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept. 26, just a few days after his wife returned to Texas, Oswald got hold of a car (where, no one yet knows) and drove to Mexico City. He showed up at the Cuban consulate and applied for a transit visa for Moscow via Havana. Told that the procedure would take as long as twelve days, Oswald got angry (or so the Cubans claim), walked out slamming the door. Next day he appeared at the offices of the Russian consul-general, described himself as a militant Communist, asked for a visa for the Soviet Union. The consul told Oswald that...
...name, and even fewer could pronounce it correctly. Most critics were angered by the fact that the Foreign Secretary would sit in the Lords, sheltered from the heavy fire of Commons debate. His decision was called "the most reckless appointment since the Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul...
...they destroy pity because they are so self-consciously aware that they are pitiable. Anyone who ever wanted to tear the epaulets off Shirley Temple's Little Colonel will find himself unsympathetic to the doomed child who says: "I can't let my mother go alone, Mister Consul. Whom would she slap when she can't bear it any longer...
John Kenneth Galbraith, former American ambassador to India and Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Mrs. Galbraith, B.K. Roy, Consul-General of India, and Mme. Roy will also be honorary patrons at the performance...
...Paulo on the north and Santa Caterina on the south. A heavy blue haze overhung the entire state, making it difficult for planes to spot new fires before they got out of control. At one point the haze lifted for an hour or so. And in that time, U.S. Consul Arthur Feldman, flying in a light plane, discovered two previously unreported fires moving rapidly toward Curitiba, the capital of Paraná. One was 35 miles away, the other...