Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since Dwight Eisenhower entered the White House that he has talked to an individual reporter. It happened because I had my golf clubs along this trip. The people at Denver's Cherry Hills Club are very nice to us reporters. The club has given us all guest cards which read: 'At the request of President Eisenhower, Cherry Hills Country Club is pleased to extend the privileges of the club...
...SHAPE correspondents' luncheon last week, the guest of honor, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, was asked: "Are you considering becoming a candidate for President of the Republic?" Replied Juin, the only living Marshal of France, and NATO's central European chief: "I should not give up my title as Marshal for the sake of another which carries with it more tiresome drudgery than real power." By teatime the remark had reached the ears of President Vincent Auriol, who chooses not to run again when his term expires next January. "Well," the President snapped to his Cabinet...
...Taif. There, King Ibn Saud, sitting in a wheelchair, greeted Naguib with a cry of "Marhaba, marhaba!" (Welcome, welcome). Said Naguib: "Glad to see you, Your Majesty." Naguib gave Ibn Saud a huge (6½-by-5-ft.) photo of himself in a gilded frame; Ibn Saud gave his guest a gold sword, three Persian rugs, a fragment of holy carpet from the Kaaba. Later the two heads of state dined together and talked privately for 20 minutes. About Arab solidarity? Almost certainly...
Died. Nicolai Berezowsky, 53, prize-winning Russian-born composer (Symphony No. 4 and the children's opera, Babar the Elephant) and veteran guest conductor; of undetermined causes; in Manhattan...
Even for those who cared little for ballet, the Rabovskys' debut had human appeal. Last May, booked for guest appearances in East Berlin, they discovered that underneath their hotel was a subway station on the line leading to the Western sector. An hour before their first-night curtain, they slipped downstairs, took a westbound train, and, says Nora, whose English made her the family spokesman, "Whisst, we come out." Last week, curled up on a couch in their London apartment, Nora recalled that for two nights afterward, "I didn't sleep because I was thinking of mother, home...