Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nyerere returned to his capital of Dar es Salaam than he called in U.S. Ambassador William Leonhart and informed him that two American officials were "engaged in subversive activities" and would have to leave the country in 24 hours. One was Embassy Counselor Robert Gordon. The other was U.S. Consul in Zanzibar Frank Carlucci, a hustling, Swahili-speaking troubleshooter who had seemed to be getting on well with Nyerere (TIME...
...long tried to sell it to the Soviet embassy. But the Kremlin professes disinterest-until suddenly the historic site is bought by one Parker Atherton III and his wife Bliss, "a severely elegant, strong-minded girl with auburn hair and a trust fund." Atherton is a vice consul at the U.S. embassy, and his purchase can only be an imperialist plot. The Russians, mostly as sobersided as Military Attaché Vassily Popov, who keeps his watch on Moscow time, charge one another with high treason. The Americans, generally as collegiate as Atherton (his qualifications: Princeton courses in "Great Ideas...
Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...
German-descended George III may have lost the American colonies, but he brought the greatest royal acquisitions from Italy to England. Through a vendor, Joseph Smith, who wheedled a post as consul to Venice, the King's additions to the royal collection increased by batches of Canaletto. Horace Walpole scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann...
Through the mercenary auspices of such as Consul Smith, and the thousands of Englishmen who discovered Italy on the Grand Tour, the masters of Florence and Venice built the base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated...