Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nations. Moderator of this global forum is Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a vigorous, white-haired, bushy-browed man of 69 who qualifies for the post both by lineage and interest. Grandnephew of Grant's Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, and son of a U.S. diplomat (D. Maitland Armstrong. U.S. consul general to Italy in 1871), Armstrong served briefly as a military attache in the U.S. consulate in Belgrade in 1919 before becoming European correspondent for the New York Evening Post. Then, in 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of Manhattan financiers, lawyers and businessmen, started Foreign Affairs...
...accused the Politburo of "betraying the martyrs of the revolution.'' For their part, the officers admit to murders and lootings but argue, in one officer's words: "Why should we respect the wealth of the colonialists while the families of heroes live in shacks?" The Italian consul was shot by mistake; the wife of the Swedish consul was raped and robbed - apparently under the impression that she was a Frenchwoman. Complaints by the diplomatic corps were waved aside as coming only from "members of the NATO nations." In a desperate bid for power, Ben Bella last week...
...Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot choclate with whipped cream; he quietly retches as he accompanies her on gassing rides at the amusement park; then he takes her to his mansion...
Poker Style. The son of a Colorado rancher, Thompson joined the Foreign Service in 1929 (as vice consul in Colombo, Ceylon), first went to Russia in the Stalin era as second secretary of the U.S. embassy during World War II. That is when he learned fluent Russian and developed his methodical, meticulous, unruffled diplomatic style. As ambassador, he kept this style both at the conference and at the card table; in a running poker game with him, some resident U.S. correspondents lost $300-$400 a session...
...travelers light banquet lasting four hours" on on their arrival in the sister city. They spent the next few days attending the fifth anniversary session of the European Parliament touring the radio and TV studio, listening to a concert of the Strasbourg Symphony Orchestra and meeting with the American Consul General and other officials...