Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANIELS Des Plaines, Ill...
...went into private practice. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army as a private, emerged five years later, after service in New Guinea, Okinawa and Japan, as a lieutenant colonel. Back in McAlester after the war, he resumed his law practice, but when Representative Paul Stewart resigned because of ill-health, Albert ran for the seat. He won a spirited Democratic primary by a scant 350 votes; his Oxford background had not sat well with some of the farmers. The general election was a pushover (Oklahoma's Third District rarely elects a Republican to office...
...Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith have set markedly individual styles. Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitivity to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen as well as a marked capacity for eloquence, love of exercise and travel, impatience with the failures of U.S. society, and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties. In one of his books, Ed Reischauer says: "Diplomatic relations have grown out of the exchange of personal representatives between kings, and they still preserve some of the aristocratic aura of their origin. But diplomatic relations today are not really between individual rulers...
...where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...
...Natural Americans," a five-page story describes Kennan, Reischauer (Japan), and Galbraith (India), as "three of the liveliest choices --and likeliest successes" among President Kennedy's 63 new ambassadors. "Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitiveness to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen...and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties...