Word: spokesman
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Macmillan was an apparently amiable guest at a British Embassy reception later, but became slightly ill there. A British spokesman blamed it on the high room temperature at the crowded party...
Five Harvard professors returned last week from Russia, where they made preliminary plans for an exchange program with the University of Leningrad. "We hope the program will begin next fall," said Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and spokesman of the group...
Last week, clearly acting as De Gaulle's spokesman, Ely gave French officers a pep talk in the official National Defense Review, outlining their new mission. The Soviet bloc, wrote Ely, is not necessarily as monolithic as it looks. Already, he declared, "Russia, in its endeavors to catch up with American industrial and scientific developments, is moving toward a similar structure." If Red China persists in driving toward "true-blue Communism," the day might come when, between the Chinese threat and "a shift toward the old mystic spiritualism of the Slavs," a Christianized and "Americanized Russia . . . might return...
...British insist that they cannot understand just what "the Maldivians are up to." Replied a Maldivian spokesman: "We do not want to be involved in world controversies...
...romance of Japan's Prince Akihito and his commoner fiancée Michiko Shoda, which ripened shyly on the tennis courts of Tokyo, a love match after all? Cruelly thwacking the charming legend, a spokesman for the imperial household told the astounded Diet that nothing so silly as affection had a part in the troth-pledging; plain, old-fashioned parental bride-picking had done the trick. "The engagement of the Crown Prince was not the result of unthinking love," said the spokesman, adding obscurely, "I have observed the Prince and was compelled to admire his mature and deliberate...