Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role there called for qualities of heart and mind that are not defined in military manuals. "In this war," he said, "a soldier has to be much more than a man with a rifle or a man whose only objective is to kill. He has to be part diplomat, part technician, part politician-and 100% a human being." As the top Marine in Viet Nam, facing an array of challenges matched by no other corps commander in the war, Old Pro Lew Walt, 54, proved himself a leader for all reasons. Last week, after two years of unremitting war, Walt...
Adolph A. Berle, LL.D., lawyer, diplomat...
...permanent resident of the United States, and it is our understanding that he is submitting a letter of resignation to his government." Thus last week, little more than two months after the defection of Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, another Communist VIP made the big switch. The highest-ranking Communist diplomat ever to have defected to the West,* Radványi was, in addition, an invaluable source for U.S. intelligence on recent events in the fast-changing countries of Eastern Europe...
Question: Can a book that is obviously destined to be a bestseller be all bad? Answer: Yes. Irving Wallace (The Man, The Prize, The Chapman Report) runs through several plots in The Plot: the Kennedy assassination, a defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss...
...spattered with mud as Barbs Delight fought Damascus for the lead. In the backstretch, Ussery moved to the outside, eased in behind the leaders-and waited. Then, coming into the homestretch, said Ussery, "I hit him three or four times." With a burst, Proud Clarion drove between Damascus and Diplomat Way, past Barbs Delight, and raced on to win by a length. Afterward, Trainer Gentry allowed as how Proud Clarion had been improving so fast that he thought the colt might be a sleeper. He still sounded like the most surprised man in Kentucky. "Just think," he said, "a month...