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After more than five years as the U.S. envoy to Canada, Ray Atherton was past 65 and heading for retirement. On the way, he would round out his career by serving as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly.
In Ottawa, Harvard-educated Ambassador Atherton found that his dignified reserve matched that of the Canadians with whom he had to do business. Canadians liked him, whether in diplomatic dealings or at the parties which he threw.
To take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street...
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