Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Strikes & a Spare. Eisenhower and Khrushchev flew from Washington to Camp David together in a helicopter, accompanied only by their interpreters and secret-service details. Their principal aides-Secretary of State Christian Herter and Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov-also helicoptered together. First evening the two parties sat down to a roast beef dinner, afterwards watched U.S. Navy movies taken on the North Pole trip of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, and also took in a western movie. The sleeping arrangements: Eisenhower, Herter, Khrushchev, Gromyko had adjoining single...
...morning last week, soon after new U.S. Ambassador Bernard Gufler* had left the bungalow, a monk in saffron robes approached the Prime Minister on the veranda. While Banda bowed low in the Buddhist greeting, another man in monk's robes drew near and whipped out a .45 pistol. As the Prime Minister cried out his wife's name, "Sirima! Sirima!" his assailant fired again and again. By the time a sentry brought the assassin down with a wound in the thigh, four bullets had pierced Banda's liver, spleen and large intestine. Next morning, after a five...
...page editors (mostly females) across the U.S., learned that almost a quarter of the distaffers were dead set against the idea of any woman's election as U.S. Vice President. The rest named some favorites. Top choices: Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ex-Ambassador to Italy (1953-57) Clare Boothe Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt...
Members of the Soviet delegation and its eight satellites left the Assembly just before the speech of T. F. Tsiang, the Nationalist Chinese ambassador...
...more than twelve years, Boston Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime (1937-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has contributed heavily (at least $12 million) to research in mental retardation. Last week he made another gift. The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation (named for a naval aviator son who was killed in World War II) announced a $1,000,000 donation to Massachusetts General Hospital to set up and maintain a laboratory for research in diseases of the nervous system in infants and children. Principal neurological symptoms to be studied: mental retardation, cerebral palsy...