Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely successor: Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, 57, who is not particularly in the chips either...
...waging a nasty little paratroop war against the Dutch over the disputed territory. If Sukarno accepts the agreement, it means that he will have to back down from his longstanding boast that he would throw the Dutch out of western New Guinea by next Jan. I. Said an Indonesian diplomat to a Dutch newspaperman: "The big Bung [brother] will have to decide. If the Bung says 'Yes,' you are my good old Dutch friend; if the Bung says 'No,' you are my good old Dutch enemy...
...Latin American policymakers. First in charge was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann, who stayed on after the Eisenhower Administration left. Next came New Deal Brain-Truster Adolph Berle, who resigned soon after the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then it was Robert Woodward, a career diplomat who lasted eight months before going to Spain as U.S. ambassador...
...hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs in a cable car high above the Alps...
...Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 46, has headed Ceylon's government for two years, since the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Tough-minded, multilingual Frances Elizabeth Willis, 63, first career woman diplomat in the U.S. to achieve ambassadorial rank, was serving in the Oslo embassy when President Kennedy decided last year that the lady Prime Minister and the lady diplomat might get along famously...