Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into this office had come such notables as Actor Raymond Massey, Financier and ex-Diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy and his Senator son John, and choleric Columnist Westbrook Pegler. When Sir Anthony Eden visited the clinic for surgery last year, it was Dr. Jordan who did the vital diagnostic work on which the surgeons' lifesaving decision was based...
...Lucky Lou") Sears is a political hack who does not speak Sarkhanese ("Fifty percent of the entire Foreign Service officer corps do not have a speaking knowledge of any foreign language"). He loathes the people, the place, the climate. By contrast, the Soviet ambassador is a carefully trained career diplomat who reads and writes Sarkhanese, has studied Buddhism. To show his appreciation of the Sarkhanese ideal of slimness, he diets away 40 Ibs.; to indicate his enthusiasm for Sarkhanese music, he becomes "a fairly skillful player on the nose flute." Obviously, the political battle between these two is no contest...
Soviet Ambassador to the United States Mikhail Menshikov will speak on Oct. 24 in New Lecture Hall, it was disclosed last night by Larry Doxsee 3L, President of the Harvard Law School Forum. The visit of the genial Russian diplomat was arranged by the Forum in co-operation with the Harvard United Nations Council...
...began last winter when Diplomat Julius Holmes stopped in Morocco on a special assignment in Africa. As onetime U.S. representative in Tangier, Holmes had a special affection for Morocco; as an alumnus of St. Paul's, he felt a sentimental tie to his old school. So he decided to bring the two together. U.S. Information Service Officer Arthur A. Bardos handled the technical details, asked the Moulay Hassan school faculty to suggest a student for a St. Paul's scholarship. The faculty unanimously chose Abdallah...
After the Chinese Reds began shelling the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy, the Globe and Mail renewed its demands to hand over Quemoy, extend diplomatic recognition and welcome the Chinese Communists into the U.N. The Globe and Mail reprinted three editorials in ads in the New York Times, drew a freshet of letters from both sides of the border, including an approving note in the Times from John Carter Vincent, left-leaning onetime U.S. diplomat who was fired from the State Department...