Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary conference, met the populace in the streets and meeting halls. By far the most listened-to and most welcomed unofficial U.S. ambassador that India had ever seen, Saund turned in a performance that undoubtedly got closer to thousands of India's doubters than any official U.S. envoy before...
...resolution named Prince Wan Waithayakon, able and gentle Foreign Minister of Thailand and president of the Eleventh General Assembly, as a special envoy to try to persuade Russia and Hungary to comply with the previous resolutions. Hungary let it be known that he would not be welcome...
...reign-Pope Pius XII last week conferred the galero (the cardinal's red hat) on Poland's primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (TIME, May 20). Reason for the brevity was that the protocol of a longer ceremony would have required the presence of Poland's accredited envoy at the Holy See, who represents not the present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. But insiders who know the importance of ceremonial minutiae...
After paying a courtesy call on Sir Winston Churchill, 82, Japan's Dr. Masatoshi Matsushita, special envoy on H-bomb menaces, repeated Sir Winston's formula for longevity: "A lot of drinking, a lot of eating and eight or nine hours of sleep-most of it in the daytime...
...hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people...