Politics Makes Strange Envoys

A movie actor, an insurance man and other U.S. ambassadors

He speaks Spanish, rides horses and has had leading roles in such films as Psycho, Spartacus and Romanoff and Juliet. He is also an acquaintance of Ronald Reagan's. It is not difficult to guess which of those qualities makes him the Reagan Administration's most probable choice as the new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. While nothing official has been announced, John Gavin, 52, apparently feels so sure of the appointment that he quit the cast of the musical Can-Can, which has been in rehearsal for...

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