Word: waynick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the chapel was boarded up for repairs. For the U.S., Ambassador Waynick lodged a strong protest with the Colombian government...
...second, better-organized attack followed the next afternoon. Tipped off, Waynick asked and got promises of strong police protection. A police detail appeared briefly, then left when all appeared quiet. Thereupon Father Florencio Alvarez, a local priest, led his most ardent parishioners down the steep cobblestone street from a hilltop slum behind the chapel. The marchers carried banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from...
...invited the public to attend holiday dedication services. The first night, a crowd massed before the chapel and threw stones through the windows. Missionary Riddell telephoned both the police and the U.S. embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...
...director of the Point Four program, but the later White House official announcement indicated nothing of the sort. Washington insiders thought that it was probably a slip of presidential timing, not tongue, believed that Rockefeller would eventually be eased into the top job, now being held by Capus M. Waynick, who is on leave from his post as Ambassador to Nicaragua...
Amabassador Oapus M. Waynick is being recalled from Nicaragua to give a quick start to the Administration's "Point Four" program of aid for the world's underdeveloped areas...