Word: consulates
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...quick study. During last fall's senatorial campaign in California, Pierre had some scathing things to say about actors like George Murphy being unqualified for politics. Ex-Senator Pierre has thought it over and, well, the movie is called Do Not Disturb, and he plays an American consul in Paris, and Doris Day is calling him from an antique shop where she's trapped. Pierre gets to say funny lines like "Influence...
Died. Henry H. Ford, 52, U.S. Consul General in Frankfurt, Germany, no kin to the Detroit Fords but nonetheless a well-known name to Germans as the genial, efficient boss of the U.S.'s biggest consulate anywhere (500 employees), contributing strongly to rising commercial and cultural relations; of a fractured skull sustained in a car accident near Limburg, Germany...
...Ulster, which had given generations of its sons as army officers and civil servants to the crown. Casement was raised in County Antrim and eventually joined the foreign service. A handsome bachelor, he spent nearly a third of his life in Africa, and while serving as a British consul in the Belgian Congo exposed the brutalities imposed on the natives by the administrators of Belgium's King Leopold...
...school rather than party dogma. More important, it represents a significant step in developing a new language for modern opera. And for one at least, the language of Intolleranza carried a very special meaning. Jan Skalicky, the costume designer for the Boston production and son of a former Czech consul to the U.S., announced at week's end that he was defecting...
...Consul spoke in place of the Ugandan ambassador, who had just been recalled to Kampala for consultations. Kalisa said the Africans' rejection of foreign rule was based on the belief, expressed by the American Revolution, in the rights of man and the rights of self-rule...