Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the U.S.S.R. In the eyes of the world, the U.S. is in the race whether it wants to be or not, and the world is largely judging the two entries by their performances. "Our space program," said Allen, onetime (1948-50) Assistant Secretary of State and longtime U.S. envoy overseas, "may be considered as a measure of our vitality and our ability to compete with a formidable rival, and as a criterion of our ability to maintain technological eminence worthy of emulation by other peoples...
Maori soldiers distinguished themselves in two world wars, and the long list of able Maoris in the professions and public life ranges from sometime Yale Anthropologist Sir Peter Buck to Oxford-educated Charles Bennett, New Zealand's current envoy to Malaya. By nature a friendly, winning and athletic people, the Maoris, in the process of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, so won the affection and respect of New Zealand whites that equality is not only explicit in law but exists in fact...