Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive, was really bizarre, even to those who work in an atmosphere of exposing intrigues. By the sudden closing, Hazelhoff announced dramatically, RFE had averted "an attempted mass poisoning"; a double agent in RFE's employ had tipped off authorities that he had been assigned by a Communist diplomat to replace the normal cafeteria salt shakers with others that he was told contained "a mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults...
...with Gronchi, Ike walked from his quarters in the Quirinale to another apartment to be guest of honor at a glittering state banquet for 70. Next came a reception that spread through a dozen rooms, attended by 6,000 lavishly dressed Romans. "Doesn't he look well?" a diplomat said. "Oh, this is marvelous, marvelous...
Died. Povl Bang-Jensen, 50, Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations, who was fired from his job for "insubordination"; by his own hand (gunshot); in New York City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome. The second American to get a red hat was also born and bred in Milwaukee; Aloysius Joseph Muench, 70, the first U.S. citizen to be an accredited diplomatic representative of the Vatican. Pope Pius XII made him apostolic visitor to Germany in 1946, raised him to archbishop in 1950 and apostolic nuncio in 1951. As the first foreign diplomat to present his credentials to the German Federal Republic in 1951, stocky, grey-haired Archbishop Muench became dean...
...event, when Mr. Eisenhower visits his 13 capitals next month, he will not find the same kind of qualified, experienced diplomat that greeted Mr. Khrushchev on his similar travels a few years ago. The Ugly American may have been the hero of the book, but in the form of the amateur ambassador, he is currently the villain of American diplomacy...