Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better in remounting a campaign against the anti-ballistic-missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...
...battle. He does not say that a draft of his March 31 speech as late as March 28 contained no mention of a bombing halt and took a hard line. Nor does he mention his three bellicose speeches given in March or his initial irritation at U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's suggestion for a total bombing halt...
WHICH makes me wish that Sheep could have been done as a cartoon. There are enough familiar two-dimensional characters. The long-neglected ambassador is General Halftrack; the pacification program man is Dudley Do-Right; the wife is Debbie Reynolds in her new TV comedy show ("Oh, Mr. Mayflower, my husband didn't make you out to be a horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that...
...from comic book characters on stage. Sometimes, the playwright in Mr. Buchwald comes creeping out, but he soon crawls back in. Buchwald often hints that something is really going to occur between certain characters, that a situation is leading to a plot. There is such a moment when the ambassador's daughter seems as though she is falling in love with the prince, but that moment dissolves at a joke about seducing the prince...
...Mennen Williams. Ironically, Wharton's main problem at the giant East Lansing campus (40,000 students) may be with black militants, who suspect his Establishment background. A graduate of Harvard, Wharton is a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the son of a former U.S. Ambassador to Norway. His pedigree spells authentic black power - but not to the militants...