Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Warm to Cold. Murphy's fire-fighting talents come from the diplomatic professionalism that has made him senior careerman of all the 12,585 State Department and Foreign Service professionals spread round the world in 77 embassies, three legations, 199 consulates and other outposts. Murphy knows the diplomatic rule book as well as anyone alive-and his professionalism tells him the proper time to throw it away. He can be a charming, top-hatted and white-gloved diplomat-or a deadly antagonist. Says an admiring British Commonwealth diplomat: "He is a joy to behold in action. I have...
...devious Admiral Darlan, helped procure a ceasefire in Algeria and Morocco, saved thou sands of U.S. and British soldiers' lives -and was severely criticized by U.S. liberals. Sample: "He is an Irish Catholic," said the New Republic. "Obviously his relations with the extreme right in French politics were warm." Dwight Eisenhower felt differently. He awarded Murphy the Distinguished Service Medal, later wrote of him: "Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd . . . Unquestionably his missionary work had much to do with eventual success...
...surrender" egg, originally hatched out of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, was set down in the slow incubator of the Congressional Record (along with two routine editorials on farm legislation) by Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. The report stayed quietly warm for four days, then popped from its shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender...
...Residenztheater was born anew, and with it, Munich launched a summerlong celebration of its Sooth anniversary. Last week, the Bavarian State Opera performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio as part of Munich's opera festival. Said Residenztheater Restorer Sepp Huf: "We wanted to re-create the warm, glowing, golden tones of the 18th century as a present to the people of Munich on the occasion of their town's Sooth birthday. I think they will appreciate...
Along with misunderstanding of his country, Stevenson met with warm hospitality toward himself. Accompanied by his sons John Fell, 22, and Borden, 26, Law Partner William M. Blair, and Russian Specialist Robert Tucker, he found official smiles and small but friendly crowds in big cities, rural hamlets, Siberian industrial towns rarely seen by Westerners. Among the trip's happiest chapters: a lavish official picnic in a forest near Sverdlovsk, within sight of a boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from...