Word: legatione
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Starting at the turn of the century, when the world developed a ravenous tin appetite (for food containers, automobile bearings, welding), Simon I. Patiño. a cholo (half-Indian) from Cochabamba, parlayed an abandoned Bolivian tin mine into a fortune estimated at a cool $1 billion. His annual income...
Even before getting his degree, young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to...
Dever and Herter are two extraordinarily dissimilar men. Born in Paris, Herter served as an attache in the U. S. Legation in Berlin during the first World War, and later became a personal assistant to Herbert Hoover in Belgium. In 1931, he ran for, and won, a seat in the...
As it has on almost every Sunday morning since last May, a sleek black limousine pulled away from the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv last week, threaded its way through the stony Judean hills to Jerusalem, and rolled to a stop before a wide white building with green onion domes...
But Bell and Richardson must constantly visit their news sources, travel about three weeks of every month. With 90 extra pages added to the normal 48 pages of his passport, Bell now carries that bulky document in a briefcase. To keep visas valid for quick take-offs to new trouble...