Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates will attend a welcoming reception on July 9 given at the Hotel Diplomat by 1,000 students of New York City. Guest speakers at the meeting will be Stoyan Gavrilovic, Yugoslav delegate to the UN, Edouard Lindeman of Columbia University, and Lisa Sergio, radio commentator...
...many years as important to the security of my family." For about 15 years, Kansas-born Harold Smith had researched and taught the science of government, had served in local and state administrations. Finally he had come to the top, to become the all but indispensable inter-bureau diplomat and master of complex finance and administration. At 48, balancing his personal books, the best that he could say was that he had broken even with his "fixed charges." By dint of such occasional frugalities as cutting his son's hair, he now had a modest house in a middle...
Robert Young (the U.S. State Department) just happens to be standing on the sidelines as an American embassy employe when Mussolini makes his 1922 March on Rome. At the time, Diplomat Young is flirting with both Sylvia Sidney (the Militant Left) and Ann Richards (the International Set). An amiable, easygoing fellow, Robert doesn't instantly spot Mussolini as a menace to world peace. But Sylvia can see the big issues as quick as a flash. In fact, she is so shocked by Robert's hazy ideological thinking that she sorrowfully washes her hands of him. On the rebound...
...acting honors go to a young newcomer named Douglas Dick. He gives a memorable, hackle-raising performance as the son who eventually loses a leg in a war his diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...
What do you want? A thousand aluminum pistons? An old airplane? A drink? Two drinks? A big blonde? A punch in the nose? You can get it in Detroit-wholesale. The atmosphere in Detroit is large; it differs from that of the diplomatic capitals of Europe. This does not mean that Detroit cannot handle a diplomat now & then. Take last week. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Vassilievich Novikov was entertained for two full days. And he could tell he wasn't in Budapest...