Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter...
...Your poor country," sympathized a Japanese diplomat, speaking to a friend in Washington. "I had thought that after Dallas this could not happen again. There is enough misunderstanding about you abroad. This will make it even worse. How could this happen...
Died. Edward S. Crocker, 72, U.S. diplomat who in 1941, as first secretary of the embassy in Tokyo, received the official Japanese declaration of war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and spent the next seven months in confinement at the embassy until the Swiss arranged his release; after a long illness; in Manhattan. "At no time in the history of civilized nations were diplomatic representatives so treated," said he of the constant harassment by Japanese police...
Both as a diplomat and financial fire man, Schweitzer has carried IMF's prestige and power to a new eminence. Example: in 1949, when Britain devalued the pound from $4.04 to $2.80, the IMF learned about it only belatedly. Last year the British consulted with the fund for weeks before making up their minds how much devaluation to risk. Afterward, the IMF gave the U.K. a hefty $1.4 billion stand-by credit to help it get back on its feet. As one condition, IMF aides scrutinized and gave tacit approval to the draconian British budget introduced last week...
...about as remote from Viet Nam as any country can be, the Vietnamese war has poisoned Swedish-American relations. In the past few months, Swedish youths have broken windows in the U.S. embassy, smeared paint on the American trade center, hurled rotten eggs at an American diplomat and burned the U.S. flag. The entire nation applauded when Premier Tage Erlander-followed shortly by his three major opposition parties -declared his Social Democratic government's opposition...