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Word: magelssen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quito. Scheduled for reassignment to Ecuador, where the post is open: Christian Magelssen Ravndal, 57, born in Syria, son of a U.S. diplomat, in the Foreign Service since 1920, with duty in Germany, Canada, Sweden, Latin America. Big, rumpled Chris Ravndal, whose great forte is public relations-he likes to get out into the back country and put across the U.S. point of view-served his first ambassadorial assignment in Uruguay, is an authority on Latin American affairs. All the shifts left the State Department abuzz at week's end with one big unanswered question: Who replaces Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Shifting Diplomats | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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