Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick of it, in the Marianas, the China Sea, the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Forty years in the Navy have rubbed the undisciplined edges off Scripture-quoting Cat Brown, but they have not blunted his claws. While he is perhaps the U.S.'s smoothest and most widely known diplomat in Mediterranean countries, he keeps the Sixth Fleet ready and able to serve as a massive instrument that can deliver atomic destruction-or the threat of it-anywhere, even to Moscow...
After casting his own vote last week (a write-in for a friend. Diplomat Isidro Fabela), López Mateos went to inspect a new wing on his walled home in the expensive Pedregal district of Mexico City. He chatted with newsmen, looked in at the garage, where a 1958 Lincoln and 1957 Chrysler have replaced his old, modest Fiat. He promised a "down to the peso" accounting of his assets before entering office Dec. 1 and again upon leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise...
...promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl in Rio would have carried all the way to Washington. Said a foreign diplomat in Washington: "From the U.S. standpoint, it is a good thing to have the lightning go down somebody else's pole for a change...
...During the Suez crisis, a Moscow crowd demonstrated outside the British embassy. A British diplomat worriedly asked a Russian cop, "How long is this going to go on?" The unagitated cop looked at his watch and said, "Oh, about 20 minutes...
...American & Foreign Power Co. subsidiary. With a sales crew of 25, Dauphinot began a door-to-door selling campaign. But after six months, only about half the issue had been sold, and all but one salesman had quit. The undaunted survivor, Paulo Quartin, son of a Brazilian diplomat, doggedly kept at the job and succeeded, by year's end, in selling the remainder of the issue...