Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 73 days of marriage but little bliss, Five & Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton and Dominican Playboy-Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa "mutually decided that it is wisest for us to separate." The honeymoon had been a mishmash of thrills (Rubi finished second in the Sebring twelve-hour sports-car endurance race), spills (Babs broke an ankle in her Manhattan bathroom), and finally chills (Babs left Rubirosa in their Palm Beach mansion last week and moved in with her aunt). For all of Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round...
...shaky that businessmen are clamoring for more business with China despite U.S. pressures. They think the fact that trade would strengthen China in the cold war is not as important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also strengthen Japan. Said Kumaichi Yamamoto, a conservative ex-diplomat and now head of the Japan-Red China Trade Promotion Society: "We are moving inevitably towards increased trade with China. This cannot be prevented by the Americans with stopgap money grants or any other kind of economic aid. The U.S. should realize that she stands to gain more by supporting trade instead...
Last year, when G.O.P. leaders, including Robert Taft, turned against McCarthy because of his wild charges against Diplomat Charles Bohlen, McCarthy diverted attention by claiming credit for taking Greek ships out of trade with China. In that round, McCarthy knocked down an Eisenhower lieutenant, Harold Stassen. By late 1953, McCarthy was adrift in a lackluster investigation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., but Harry Truman put him back in the headlines by labeling the exposure of the Harry Dexter White case as "McCarthyism." Joe promptly proclaimed that Joe was the issue in the 1954 elections...
Both encouragement and warning came from an invited guest. Dr. Hu Shih, 62-year-old ex-diplomat and philosopher, is China's most honored scholar in a civilization which accords scholars a respect akin to reverence. Hu Shih has always refused to join the Kuomintang, has often been regarded as a possible rallying point by intellectuals among the 13 million overseas Chinese who were both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Hu Shih disowned such disciples. He had come all the way from New York (where he has lived since 1949), he said, because "I feel it a moral obligation...
...Other contenders: Political Philosopher Thomas Jefferson, Essayist James Madison, Diplomat John Quincy Adams, Historian Woodrow Wilson...