Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resurgence of German men and machines more evident than in Germany's No. 1 auto company, Volkswagenwerk GMBH, and its boss, Heinz Nordhoff, 55, a compact (5 ft. 10½ in., 165 Ibs.) man with the steady eyes of a production whiz and the courtly manners of a diplomat. Six years ago, both Nordhoff and Volkswagen were part of the wreckage as Germany itself lay in the gutter of the world...
once felt that he and Hoover were not so far apart came to light last week.. In the second volume of his Roosevelt biography (Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal), Author Frank Freidel reported that Roosevelt wrote Diplomat Hugh Gibson in 1920: "I had some nice talks with Herbert Hoover before he went West for Christmas. He is certainly a wonder, and I wish we could make him President of the U.S. There could not be a better...
Died. Humphrey Hume Wrong, 60, topflight Canadian diplomat, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, and former (1946-53) Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Ottawa...
...fourth of the group should have one-half the choice of meeting place, and were for making a big issue of it, on the ground that the Russians did not really dare hold out indefinitely. "The Russians don't mind the conference beginning." said a cynical French diplomat. "But they won't want it to end." He was undoubtedly right: the longer the Russians can keep the Foreign Ministers in session in Berlin, the longer France would delay getting down to voting on the European Army. But John Foster Dulles is anxious to get Molotov to the table...
...Manhattan hotel suite where she began a honeymoon with her fifth husband, Dominican Diplomat-Playboy Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, five & dime Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official...