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Some weeks there are as many as " half dozen parties and dinners, and usually one or two of them are formal affairs. "If you dont attend one," Mrs. White says, "officials of the host government think your government is angry with theirs. Same applies if you pass up a toast - RECIPES, MENUS AND GIFT IDEAS IN A COOKBOOK THAT'S AS BRIGHT AND COLORFUL AS CHRISTMASI J r . ij. S. Ambauador KatJuurine E. White, left, chat with Denmark $ Queen Ingrid. The Ambassador Is a Grandmother & TO: ADVANCE PUBUSHEK. INC -- -- V of , wcRfltEi fdoMd a Vjf - ; mm f wAtrfct;i r mM . powawa " i I I .. ... ... J j 1 SlMi relations got a boost when Katharine White, 58, of Red Bank, N.J., climbed down a rope ladder on all fours! : gvorantoad, or moy j RilMaycaikinjlbotiaf j cy a sio... ......... i . . . POsmaiD friar Of Writ UgiMy rot ONir Danish-America- n -- C.O.D J for which pUata ia4 .( . caoiM of McCall't Book al Umtrr aach. SalittacHe $l-0- TODAY... ! i tiros ieHm fir Menu ORDER s Zip. 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"Part of my job is to make sure the American position on various matters is known and understood by the Danes," she says. Then she adds with a smile, "This is an old, sophisticated country that has ex- best-kno- AT k.1 uj Some of those parties can become quite gay." Dieting, of course, becomes impossible on the banquet circuit, she adds. Mrs. White and her husband Arthur, a former director of a child psychiatric ambassador's center, occupy the residence in Charlottenlund, a picturesque seacoast suburb of Copenhagen. "Arthur takes the jokes about being the ambassador's mate' in stride," she says. Their only regret is not being able to share the experience of living abroad with their married son and daughter and nine grandchildren, who are in the United States. But Ambossodqr White is used to the difficulties of public life. She has been involved in government and politics since childhood (her father served as ambassador to Turkey), She was elected mayor of her home town of Red Bank, NJ., in .1950, in 1952 and 1954, and a year later appointed vice chairman of the state ' Democratic Party. In 1964 she received amher appointment as the $26,000-a-yebassador to Denmark. ' ."I've always been busy but now I represent not one group but an entire nation. If s an awesome feeling when you stop to think about it," she says. 20-roo- m oa ept us One 6ft mcutw t boci For txtn (oat relief from anoorlnt row cauaea ouca. ary am, nery Itcn " skin.ojcbrioc. "oldor nahoB, tilanla otber Itch troubles, kiiiu, Soothing, get D.D.D. Proscription. cooling, antiseptic . . . alda taaailng. Don't scratch don't suffer. Ask your druulat for DDJ.. Liquid or crsajn. ar Family W$tUy, November t, a GIVE If SIM) crai TOO ItTUITIC THE UNITED WAY IMS I 144 m nom-FOI fCf NAME ASStCIATES-ICT- T a im co i nCA!K K mmm si. tmaa 1 1 11 |