Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians have become very fond . . . Everyone will be sorry to see her go, especially those irreconcilable supporters of the stronger sex who were not pleased with the idea of seeing an ambassador in skirts in our capital city. Mrs. Luce has shown herself to have the stature of her post. Only a few people, and even fewer diplomats, have understood the reality and the spirit of the Italian woman like this woman has, probably because she approached our country in the first instance with her heart. For her clarity and her honesty, we are grateful...
Chris Herter's life has been shaped for his new job. Born in Paris of American parents, he studied interior decoration in New York, left to accept a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin in 1916. At the Versailles conference, he served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, later became executive secretary of the European Relief Council and traveled around ravaged Europe with Relief Chief Herbert Hoover...
...appointment to succeed Ambassador John Allison as "a natural." But the feeling was not universal; commented Tokyo's second biggest newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, "The name MacArthur will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...
...Defense Secretary Wilson spotted Burgess-a Democrat-for-Eisen-hower-and brought him full-time into the Administration as Assistant Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including...
Coach Bruce Monro has moved up Hans Moede from the third string to a starting post at center. Dave Scott, who scored 23 points in the loss to Wesleyan, will move to forward, Dave Grayer will play the other forward, and Sherman Sylvo and Mike Donahue will open at guards...