John Harter here describes highlights of his Foreign Service career, including: meeting the South African reporter who became his wife, revamping a dilapidated shell of a house into an elegant mansion for the American deputy chief of mission in Chile, various links with UN economic and social policies and operations, financial reporting in Thailand, participation in trade-policy negotiations at GATT headquarters in Geneva, interviewing more than one hundred prominent Americans as a correspondent for USIA, and representing the United States at the UN Conference on Trade and Development.