Word: woodwards
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...efficiency of the State Department regulars has suffered. Since January, four of the top Latin American experts in the Foreign Service have resigned or transferred to less morale-cracking posts; more than 21 qualified men turned down the Assistant Secretaryship for Inter-American Affairs before Ambassador to Chile Robert Woodward finally accepted...
...seemed routine enough: the White House last week announced the appointment of Ambassador to Chile Robert F.Woodward, 52, as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. But behind that appointment lay five months of incredible confusion and frustration within the New Frontier. Before Woodward, no fewer than 21 persons had been sounded out for the Inter-American Affairs job. Such candidates as Ellsworth Bunker, retired Ambassador to India, and Carl Spaeth, dean of the Stanford University Law School, had politely but firmly rejected it. And Bob Woodward accepted only because, as a career diplomat, he had little choice...
...American affairs. They include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, currently on a good-will tour in Latin America; Kennedy Aides Richard Goodwin, architect of the Alliance for Progress program, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Mc-George Bundy; and Adolf Berle, chief of a "Latin America task force." And to add to Woodward's future problems, New Orleans' Mayor deLesseps Morrison, accepting a post as Ambassador to the Organization of American States, last week blandly let it be known that he considers his new job as outranking that of the Assistant Secretary...
Chile: Robert Forbes Woodward, 52, currently Ambassador to Uruguay. Able Bob Woodward has spent nearly all of his 30-year State Department career in Latin American affairs, managing to retain an unruffled Minnesota disposition...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Abraham Lincoln: The Early Years," a repeat for the superb James Agee script, starring Joanne Woodward and Royal Dano...