Word: go-between
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Retiring from the Army in 1949, Jerry Persons became superintendent of Virginia's Staunton Military Academy, enjoyed watching his cadets grow up "like a damned fine garden." But in 1951 Ike called again; Persons went to France as liaison man at Supreme Allied headquarters, became the go-between for General Eisenhower and the scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft...
...before. Galindez is still listed as a missing person by New York police; Murphy is dead, and so is the Dominican pilot who admittedly killed him; the FBI still wants Espaillat to waive his diplomatic immunity for questioning. Sydney Baron, the ex-Tammany Hall pressagent who acted as go-between for Trujillo and Ernst, said that the inquiry was "very comprehensive and expensive," that both Ernst and Baron would probably get more than their original guarantees, boosting the cost past the first estimate of $160,000. Trujillo doubtless will cheerfully...
...photostats of three checks and deposit slips for $5,300,000 to show that the "building" was not without foundation. The third cable, said to have been sent by Ibrahim after he left Damascus for Beirut, was addressed to a former Syrian M.P. who had acted as a Damascus go-between: "Come immediately. Building fraudulent. Refused give us anything. Give money back to original owners. Our situation is dangerous. Umm Khalid is sick and angry and asks our immediate return...
...touch with the outside world mostly by means of a single radio and through a steady stream of clergy, nuns, officials and plain citizens in his waiting rooms. There has been no evidence of any direct contact with Gomulka; Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski is usually mentioned as the go-between. Two members of the Polish hierarchy closest to him-they accompanied him to Rome-are Bishop Zygmut Choromanski, Secretary of the Episcopate and the sharpest brain and bargainer in the Polish church, and Auxiliary Bishop Antoni Baraniak of Wyszynski's own see of Gniezno, who was imprisoned just before...
...days when Gamal Abdel Nasser was a mere captain, neighboring little Lebanon was making money hand over fist as the Middle Eastern go-between for Western entrepreneurs. It avoided violent nationalism, and Western businesses turned to it as to an oasis for their Middle Eastern headquarters, transforming .the tiny, tidy state into the Switzerland of the Arab world...