Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn for three years (1953-56), first as Deputy High Commissioner, later as Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea (1956-59), he won high marks for his cool and tactful dealings with irascible, immovable old (84) President Syngman Rhee. When news of Dowling's appointment was flashed to Bonn, Adenauer promptly cabled official approval along with word that he would be "delighted" to welcome an old friend to Bonn...
...hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly anti-Butler delegations, notably from the proud South, are likely to find themselves housed in the Pasadena Y.M.C.A., 14 miles from the activity, and seated...
...positions in a matter of seconds. We haven't used it. We hope we don't have to." He did not have to. Amid rising talk of an "understanding" with world Communism, Bob Murphy preferred to keep the peace with a discreetly muscular policy based on a cool assessment of Communism's performance and potential...
...plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
...Weinhard brewery, they placed an ad in The New Yorker that read: "Keep Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest and only brewery as a fitting prelude to Oregon's glorious 1959 centennial celebration. Just picture what reforestation will do for Times Square! Cool and green, teeming with game, salmon swimming up Pepsi Cola sign to spawn...