Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a maharajah at a mahouts' outing. His new friends in Israel and Japan called him "a nice gentle guest" and "a tough dandy." Back home, his old friends were only left to wonder: Who is this prince of charity, this prophet of peace, this generous, sober, chaste diplomat, this new Frank Sinatra...
While in flight, Harkins put on his glasses, made notes on index cards for a speech to be made to a new contingent of U.S. officers arriving next day. In clear block letters he jotted down such phrases as "Remember you are not commanders," "Diplomat discreet," and "Def . . . Lem . . . Felt . . ." In other words, he intended to tell the new men not to give orders to the Vietnamese, only to advise; they are to work hard to get along with their Vietnamese counterparts; and Defense Secretary McNamara, General Lyman Lemnitzer and Admiral Harry Felt were all arriving in a week...
...each side has need of the other, but it is a precarious equilibrium, and neither can leave it at that. "If I were plotting a fever chart I'd give Fidel's line a short spurt upward, but surely the trend must point down," says a foreign diplomat in Havana. Working in Roca's favor, say the experts, is the massive indoctrination that has brought 60,000 young Cubans from the countryside to fill expropriated Havana mansions. By day, they learn a trade; by night they learn a Roca brand of Communist discipline. "One day," says...
Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
...smooth diplomat, he wangled permission from governmental commissions to slash money-losing passenger services, bought new equipment and attracted high-rate freight. Within a year, the Western Pacific was solidly in the black, and it has been profitable since then. Just last month Whitman reported that W.P. profits in 1961 rose...