Word: salvador
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...report, compiled by State Department Inspector General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...
...Jersey-born Trowbridge graduated cum laude from Princeton ('51), won a Bronze Star as a Marine second lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president and division manager of Esso Standard Oil Co. of Puerto Rico when the Administration tapped him as Assistant Secretary of Commerce about three years...
...Marilyn" art show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Of 50 works by 36 artists, by far the better half, from de Kooning, Rosenquist and Warhol, among others, predated her death in 1962. The recent works were second-rate or worse, with the booby prize going to Salvador Dali for a ten-foot mobile, obviously whomped up for the occasion, that features a pair of Esso Tiger flags dangling beneath a photomontage of the faces of Marilyn and Mao Tse-tung. The idea seems to be that sex kittens and paper tigers are really siblings under the skin...
...many feel he doesn't have the stature needed to put life and drive into an organization which today suffers badly from its own impotence and lack of imagination. Privately, most of his supporters are said to admit Ritter's failings, and two Central American republics, El Salvador and Guatemala, abandoned him somewhere during the four ballotings. It is these two votes that would have put him over...
Though never a Communist himself, he was a strong supporter of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán's Communist regime, which took power in 1950. As ambassador to El Salvador in 1954, he tried to thwart the U.S.-supported military coup that toppled Arbenz. The new government stripped Asturias of his citizenship, and sent him once again into exile. Last year, after the election of Moderate Leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Asturias was invited back to his country, where he rejoined the foreign service...