Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of sensitive diplomatic assignments-Rome, Paris, Moscow, Madrid, London, Rio de Janeiro-U.S. Career Diplomat James Clement Dunn won wide respect as an urbane, wise, influential foreign-service officer. As U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-52), he merited the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for helping defeat the Communists in the critical 1948 elections (partially by dramatizing U.S. aid). As Ambassador to Spain (1953-55), he helped develop the new U.S. policy of good relations with Franco. Moving on to booming Brazil in February 1955, he concentrated on touring remote jungles and backwaters by jeep, plane...
Last month Career Diplomat Dunn was nominated one of the U.S.'s first "five-star diplomats" with the rank of career ambassador.* Last week, at 65, Dunn announced plans to retire, effective July 1. Said President Eisenhower: "exceptionally capable service...
...Diplomats. But whether the subject was disarmament, German reunification, or Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's pet plan for channeling aid to underdeveloped countries through the U.N., reported Paris' Le Monde, it was "a dialogue between deaf men." Once Khrushchev rasped something that startled Mollet into an amazed grin. "I amuse you, don't I?" roared Khrushchev. "If I speak bluntly, it's because I'm not a diplomat." Schoolmasterly Socialist Mollet responded: "Neither...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area...
Cockeyne. Annette, a "cosmopolitan ragamuffin," according to her diplomat father, begins the novel by leaving finishing school because teacher, who was reading Dante, said the poor Minotaur was suffering in hell. Since Annette feels that the classical monster* can't help being a monster, she leaves, not neglecting to swing on a chandelier on the way, and goes out to live the exciting life of a junior myth...