Word: ex-ambassador
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...McLANDRESS DIMENSION, by Mark Epernay. A slyly satiric formula for estimating the character of statesmen and public personages by calculating their ability to concentrate on something other than themselves and ironic assaults on the dignity of bureaucracy. The pseudonymous author is ex-Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith...
...tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were in Manhattan, where the ex-ambassador was laying plans for a speaking tour designed to cover up what he called "the trail of stench" left by his talkative daughter...
...nothing government of U Nu, whose photo is still hawked on the streets and outsells that of Ne Win by a wide margin. One opposition leader, U Ba Swe, called on Ne Win "to retreat from the brink of disaster for the sake of the nation," and the ex-Ambassador to the U.S., U Win, demanded a return to parliamentary democracy. Both were packed off to "protective custody," along with nine other dissenters from instant socialism...
...week's end the power of speech returned to Joe Kennedy. When Richard Cardinal Gushing visited him and assured him he was going to recover, Joe laboriously replied, "I know I will.'' But his doctors continued to call the ex-ambassador's case "serious...
...hard time keeping its own shiny. Admen have learned to put up with image-smashing by professors, but what really hurts is when one of their own hacks away at the pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...