Word: diplomatic
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Others receiving degrees at Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...
Livingston T. Merchant is now U.S. executive director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A career diplomat, he has served as Assistant and Undersecretary of State and in several posts abroad...
...citation: "In a long career this discerning diplomat has advanced the interests of our country with faithfulness and distinction...
...important things going on. Fewer than half the students voted for any kind of student government in the December election and interest in the future of RUS was at best sporadic. But in a sense this helped. Throughout the long negotiations, Miss Batts, with the skill of a seasoned diplomat, was very careful not to push the administration not a corner, not to precipitate a "confrontation," not to heat emotions. And when the ultimatum came, it came in a very subtle form: Columbia. The administration did not feel directly challenged. It did not have to worry about saving face...
...everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay to take Couve's place. Aside from being an astute diplomat, Couve de Murville is an exceptionally effective administrator and an inspecteur des finances whose task will be to get France's shaken economy in order. Debré, always close to De Gaulle, can be expected to pick up on the general's foreign policy without missing a beat...