Word: sevilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real scoop when she disclosed, almost three weeks later, that the Johnsons had attended a dinner at the Averell Harrimans'-and that every-one had had a fine time. The Johnsons' place cards had been filled in with the names of the Nicaraguan ambassador, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, and his wife, so that no one would know the President was coming until he arrived...
JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally-his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra...
...future diplomats would be expected to pay their traffic fines. In the first ten days, 205 cars with DPL plates were ticketed, and 46 fines were actually paid. But by then diplomatic indignation was running so high that the dean of the diplomatic corps, Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, waited on Dean Rusk in person with a protest. Sheepishly the State Department backed up. The police department sent out a directive to be "diplomatic to the diplomats" once again. Only if there was a blatant violation or if the diplomat was not on official business would summonses still...
With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
Meeting Mr. Martini. Last week Sevilla-Sacasa rounded out 20 years as his country's ambassador to the U.S. In that post, he has served under four U.S. Presidents, eight Secretaries of State and six Nicaraguan chiefs of government. During his two decades in Washington, he has accumulated nine children, 34 medals and 4,400 photographs of himself and his family. A passionate baseball fan, he calls his children "my baseball team...