Word: officialdom
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...usual, officialdom in Washington and London protested De Gaulle's timing most of all: in the middle of the Berlin crisis, it was essential, they said, to convince Russia of Western unity. But this was not an argument calculated to sway a man who had never hesitated in World War II to put pressure on Britain and the U.S. at precisely the time when it would have maximum effect...
...joint session of the legislature. "Like you, we in Massachusetts came to our state under great difficulties," he told descendants of Mormon pioneers. "We, too, had great faith in our churches." With photogenic wife Jacqueline alongside, he paid a cordial call on the Mormon Church's powerful officialdom. In the scheduled two-hour prop-stop, extended to 31, Jack Kennedy acted like what he is: the front-running candidate for presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention next year...
From the Soviet point of view, it was a disturbing fact that Mikoyan's trip had made no visible dent in the unity of the Western allies. British and French officialdom, in a rare vote of confidence in U.S. diplomatic skill, admiringly agreed that Washington had handled Mikoyan adroitly. In West Germany the U.S. had accomplished the diplomatic equivalent of the hat trick. While rock-hard Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rejoiced in his belief that the U.S. had "held firm" against Mikoyan's blandishments, the opposition Social Democratic Party was happily convinced that the U.S. had displayed "new flexibility...
...Moscow reverberated with the volleys of invective loosed upon Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Nobel Prize committee announced that the prize in physics had been awarded to Russian Physicists Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor I. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. Without a trace of embarrassment over its inconsistency, Soviet officialdom beamed, and nobody charged (as they had with Pasternak) that it would amount to accepting a "handout" from "the enemy." All three Russians rank high in the esteem of,the outside world as well as in the Soviet scientific hierarchy. Dr. Tamm is often rated as the leading Soviet nuclear...
...eyes of British officialdom, Heuss brought off his four-day official visit with tact, taste and humor. Said Heuss himself, when someone tried to compliment him on the sparse cheers he received: "Don't be ridiculous. Eighty percent were cheering for the Queen. 10% were cheering the horses, and 10% were cheering me-but they were Germans...