Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHINA IS A MONUMENTAL MESS. This was the verdict of one Western diplomat last week as representatives of 87 countries, including Nikita Khrushchev, flew into Peking to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Communist rule. Not far from Nikita's side was a shadowy figure named Liu Shao-chi-the sort of human blur most people overlook. But nobody should overlook Liu. who is the man in charge of the organization charged with holding Red China together. See FOREIGN NEWS'S COVER...
...Corpus Christi, Texas, the great ports of the eastern and southern U.S. were as idle as millponds last week, immobilized by a sudden wildcat strike by the crime-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. Pickets in New York took a "coffee break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger...
...that Red China's masters had conjured up to mark their tenth year in power. But behind the gala façade lay a grim reality: the world's biggest and brashest Communist state was stumbling into the most critical year of its existence. Says a Western diplomat stationed in Peking: "The place is a monumental mess...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
...year ago, Kishi's control over his faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party was shaky and his popularity with Japan's masses at an alltime low. Last week his control over his cohorts was clear and undisputed, and his stock with the public soaring. "Today," said a Western diplomat, "Kishi is Mister Japan...