Foreign Service Training Chief Disenchants Hopeful Diplomats

Prospective college diplomats got the inside story yesterday on "The Foreign Service of the United States as a Career" from William P. Maddox, director of the Foreign Service Institute.

After telling his listeners to discard the "native attitude" that the Foreign Service is a "romance of glamour and purple intrigue," Maddox pointed out that every officer has to do a large amount of hard, and frequently dull, routine work.