Word: consulation
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...Picture Puzzle. Edward Rice, U.S. consul general in Hong Kong, compares the job to filling in "a picture puzzle from which a good many pieces are missing." His staff of 60 pores over everything from the speeches of high party leaders to reports of steel shipments and Peking opera programs. The typical senior officer, who must spend four to eight hours a day reading through his In box, starts his morning with the night's output of the New China News Agency, 20,000 to 30,000 words containing the previous day's government announcements, speeches and accounts...
There are other hazards to the glit glut. Manhattan jet-set Travel Agent Susan Stein recalls with a shudder the time recently when her sequined dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter...
...quarters were equally shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered to a uniform level...
...brought me to this forlorn place?" goes an old Vietnamese song about exile. It was hardly an apt description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever...
Blake's conversion to Communism ostensibly occurred while he was a prisoner in North Korea from 1950 to 1953. As British vice consul in Seoul, he rated harsh treatment from his Communist captors, as well as a few sporadic attempts at brainwashing. A fellow prisoner, British Journalist Philip Deane, finds the conversion theory "ludicrous." Says he: "Blake was never kept away from his fellow prisoners for more than a few hours"-too short a time for effective brainwashing. As to a philosophical decision by Blake that Communism was morally superior, Deane observes: "All we knew at the hands...