Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Jack Peurifoy−the U.S. embassy at Bangkok had had perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
Hear No Evil. Iron-jawed Max Bishop, in his first ambassadorial post, sees Thailand taking the disastrous course of China in the early '40s, and regards every criticism of the Thai government as Communist inspired. While the Russians and the Chinese woo Southeast Asia with honeyed words, Bishop's inflexible, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude grates on the easygoing, polite Thais. In his rush to ingratiate himself with Pibul (who smilingly referred to him recently as "my ambassador"), Bishop has ignored or antagonized regular foreign-office channels...
...recent dinner party Ambassador Bishop became so enraged with a prominent Thai that he shouted: "I don't care if you all go behind the Bamboo Curtain!" Max Bishop has a carrying voice, and its echoes are being heard with concern in Washington...
Conversation (Thurs. 9 :30 p.m., NBC). The Egghead and I, discussed by Jacques Barzun, Max Lerner, Clifton Fadiman...
...best measure of last week's tele vision is that Truth or Consequences' brutal hoax was about the most enter taining item shown. Jack Benny contented himself with a repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...