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That definition might well be considered for the next edition of Webster's. The New York Times last week published a list of ambassadors appointed by President Nixon, along with the amounts that they contributed to his last two elections. The price for even the least prestigious post seems...
> $100,000: New York Lawyer John Humes, Ambassador to Austria since October 1969; Leonard K. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of California; and DeWitt and Lila Wallace, co-chairmen of the Reader's Digest.
> It has long been common to reward big contributors with ambassadorships, despite their lack of diplomatic experience. Large donors who made it under Nixon include Kingdon Gould Jr., who gave $22,000 and became ambassador to Luxembourg; Guilford Dudley Jr., $51,000, Denmark; John P. Humes, $43,000, Austria; Vincent...
6. Of the ten highest single game scoring totals recorded last year, eight were by either Neumann, Carr, or Humes, but the fourth highest game total (56 points) was netted by a well known east coast star against Furman. Who was he? The tenth highest game was posted by a...
As for the question whether or not we indeed had two speakers committed to speak at our second event. Miss Day's reporting was anything but fair. If Mr. Humes from the State Department did actually deny that he had been scheduled for our second Counter Teach-In, it was...