Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service varies from chasing llamas across the barren hills of Turkestan to arranging intrigues in the smoke-filled backrooms of Communist capitals. For most, the excitement and variety of the work constitute its prime reward, and Henry Serrano Villard, a career diplomat for fifty years, would agree. But the niggardly budget of the State Department has not kept up with rising costs around the world, and the U.S. diplomat consequently has been exposed to severe indignities. Villard has collected all the gripes of his fifty years in the Service...
TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Early Bird satellite relays a transatlantic discussion about nuclear controls between Senator Robert Kennedy in the U.S., French General Pierre Gallois in Paris, German Politician Franz Josef Strauss in Munich, and British Diplomat Lord Chalfont in Geneva...
...Drawing Back." Friendly quit after a hassle with his group vice president, John Schneider. CBS had already broadcast General James Gavin's testimony live from gavel to gavel. Schneider decided to forgo televising the next day's hearings, featuring ex-Diplomat George Kennan, in favor of a taped condensation to be run later. What burned Friendly even more was that NBC covered the proceedings while CBS was showing stale reruns from I Love Lucy. All this made Friendly most unfriendly, especially toward Schneider...
...escorted by a small security guard of Harvard leftists to a party held in his honor. He knew only a few of the forty or so in attendance, but seemed to have friends in common with most everyone. It would have been no easy trick picking the former Irish diplomat out from among the Cambridge crowd. He held his glass as deftly as anyone. He did speak with a slight accent, but it could almost as well have been English as Irish...
Aloof and often sensitive to criticism, Visser 't Hooft has been primarily a scholar-diplomat, learned enough to hold his own on any divinity-school faculty. Blake, as he readily admits, is no theologian. Nonetheless, he has what President Arthur McKay of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary calls "an instinctive theological savvy about the issues that are facing the church." Out of conviction that Christianity has a duty to speak out on social issues, Blake has done more than merely preach about Negro rights; in 1963 he was arrested for attempting to integrate an amusement park in Maryland...