Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians blandly ignored their capitalistic neighbors. This summer, however, the Russians took a more conciliatory tone, and asked the State Department to intercede with local authorities about the $14,000 in annual taxes they were paying on Killenworth. Since Soviet U.N. Chieftain Jacob Malik was to use the mansion henceforth, couldn't the place be declared taxexempt...
Last week Mayor Luke A. Mercadante of Glen Cove, L.I., sent the State Department the answer: no. According to New York tax laws, there was no provision for any such exception. Breathing heavily, he also passed on some information of a semi-global nature: Malik, through an intermediary, had asked a local merchant to carpet the house with material which would wear at least three years...
Buzz, Buzz. When the Security Council met that afternoon at Lake Success, everyone buzzed busily along the air-conditioned corridors. The chief conjecture: Russia might be about to back the North Koreans openly. But Jacob Malik merely charged that the affair was one more "provocation" by U.S. "warmongers." In Moscow the next day, Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky tried to shift it from a U.N. to a Russo-American affair; he summoned U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk and tried to hand him a note alleging that eleven American warplanes had shot down an unarmed Soviet plane near the Russian naval base...
...Gladwyn's arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...
Between bouts with Russia's Jacob Malik, Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Warren Austin hurried off to Burlington, Vt, put on the proper uniform (including a frayed shirt and striped galluses) for an inspection tour of his ripening apple orchard...