Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strict protocol for awarding honorary degrees dictates that a scientist, a musician, and a foreign diplomat all win degrees, along with occasional additions such as Harvard administrators, English politicians, and other dignitaries...
Erich Leinsdorf, retiring director of the Boston Symphony, is a strong favorite in the musician category, but the scientist race is still in doubt. Early talk of Charles DeGauelle as the honorary foreign diplomat has faded, with a member of the Peruvian government moving in as probable winner...
...Loucheur has also built a cathedral, numerous schools and 186 miles of roads, and has baptized 43,000 Africans. Léger's position is also ambiguous in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, where he poses a protocol problem. "As a Cardinal," explains one official, "he outranks every diplomat in the country...
Died. Franz von Papen, 89, German diplomat and politician who loomed large in Hitler's rise to power; of a virus infection; in Oberasbach, West Germany. Germans called him "the sly old fox of politics." He was actually a chronic blunderer who had the aristocratic connections and great good luck to survive his gaffes. As a World War I military attaché in the U.S., his fumbling attempts at espionage and sabotage led to his expulsion. As a postwar politician, his machinations finally gained him the chancellorship in 1932, whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found...
...Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams, describe her future son-in-law, Adam Clayton Powell III, a direct descendant of the high-rolling Harlem Congressman. The bride-to-be is Daughter Beryl, 26, a Radcliffe grad and freelance writer whose paternal family tree is rooted in Mayflower timber (her career-diplomat father is descended from Miles Sta-dish). Beryl said that she and Adam, 22, a producer in WCBS-TV's news department in Manhattan, will be married this month at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral. If her assessment of her fiance is correct, young Adam...