Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...route to the Paris U.N. meeting. After talking with Egyptian friends, Casey sat down with a scotch & soda and told newsmen: "This situation of tension can't go on indefinitely. Something's got to happen." Did Casey see a way out? a newsman asked. "No," said the diplomat...
...Just a year after the Korean outbreak, a surprise proposal for peace talks came from this diplomat...
...swear them in, they are going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled. Mr. Will summoned an undertaker, who carefully sifted the diplomat out of the mail, put the ashes in a suitable urn and sent them...
...Will was among 100 State employees to get awards and congratulations from Secretary Acheson last week. "If their stories were well known, the perennial ghost of the aloof, striped-pants diplomat would disappear," said Dean Acheson, with the wistful air of a perennial ghost...
...Italian army officer and a Russian mother, Rossi did not decide on a singing career until 1943. Up to that time, he meant to be a diplomat. But after a spell in the Italian army he became a partisan liaison man with the Allies, and began to roar out folk songs at soldier parties. He won so much local fame that the mayor of Verona asked him to sing a concert. Since then, Rossi has studied opera with the devotion of a monk. By last year, his big bass had filled every major opera house in Italy and several...