Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milan, with a black shawl over his knees and his personal possessions crammed into a borrowed suitcase, he had never been so much as a parish priest, and yet he was taking charge of Italy's most populous diocese. To the surprise of the city, the quiet Vatican diplomat became a pastoral whirlwind. He visited Milan's Communist districts, calmly asked for workers' suggestions as to where they would like their new church built. Greeted with jeers and catcalls, he would advance with a sad smile on his pale face, hand half outstretched. Again and again, even...
...Only major change: the resignation of Vice President and General Manager Amory Bradford, who turned in an award-losing performance as spokesman for New York publishers during the long newspaper strike this year. He will be replaced by Harding Bancroft, an able lawyer and onetime diplomat who has been the Times's secretary since...
George Frost Kennan, author and diplomat, presently U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia . . . LL.D...
...author, diplomat LL.D...
...face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum...