Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Names like Cabot and MacArthur are certainly American. Even Labouisse and Poullada or Reinhardt and Riddleberger do not seem very out of place on the roster of U.S. ambassadors, but the newest name in the diplomatic ranks will have them goggling. Last week President Johnson appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador a man named Raul Castro...
...when it lay again in ruins-Tokyo had a chance to rebuild itself into a cohesive metropolis. Indeed, Ichiro Kono, the stocky, 66-year-old State Minister in charge of the Olympics and the man who is largely responsible for Tokyo's face lifting, blames General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupation for the latter-day failure...
...From their heavenly abode, three great American Republican personages, General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Robert A. Taft and Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, who felt the sting of political crucification by so-called moderate extremists, must have had a hand in the Miracle of San Francisco...
...called on Carlos P. Romulo just after he became president of the University of the Philippines two years ago. "Are you going to the left or to the right?" they demanded. "I'm going forward," said Romulo. With the drive that made him a brigadier general under Douglas MacArthur, the first Asian President of the United Nations General Assembly (in 1949-50), Philippine Foreign Minister and twice ambassador to Washington, Romulo is pushing the Philippine national university forward faster than ever before...
...through a series of mergers ultimately came to the top of Sperry Rand. Today he controls the company because he is the largest shareholder, with one-half of 1% of the widely scattered stock, and has a permissive board that includes several friends. Even when General Douglas MacArthur was chairman, Vickers was the single-minded commander...