Word: greeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mounting a photographer's chair to get closer to the Prime Minister, the stranger spoke, and Verwoerd turned to shake the hand of a presumed greeter. Instead he stared at the point-blank muzzle of a .32 automatic. Pratt fired twice, and South Africa's Prime Minister lay on the concrete aisle, blood spurting from two holes in his cheek and ear. His wife flung her arms around him, crying "What's happened? What's happened?" Then she fainted. Verwoerd's personal bodyguard, Major Carl Richter. was a few feet away when, belatedly, he realized...
...should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since I don't know French, I will try to finish...