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...Department when Truman abruptly appointed him Ambassador to Mexico in 1950. But gregarious Bill O'Dwyer has become the most popular ambassador the U.S. ever had in Mexico. Mexicans like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, a joint project of both nations, O'Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth...
AUGUST-Missing Links. In Vancouver, B.C., police sought four tosspots who had been pushing each other into a zoo moat to entertain the sober inhabitants of Stanley Park's monkey house...
...surface, he was a roughhewn hellion, who prided himself in dressing sloppily, once showed up barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...
...place, however, if the Houses had an adequate system of protecting students' valuables. The Union is the only dining hall in the College that provides such protection. And there is no reason, financial or otherwise, for the Houses not to have checkers on weekends when students are likely to entertain many guests...
...committee suggests its results would be different over at Radcliffe as "college girls in American society take a different approach to activities because, either consciously or unconsciously, they entertain a different set of expectations about their future role in society...