Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lined the roads to the city, carrying Nasser pictures and waving little United Arab Republic flags in the bright spring sunshine. Jutting broad-shouldered and broad-grinning over the heads of Voroshilov and Khrushchev, the dictator of the Nile paraded, standing in an open ZIL convertible, to his luxurious guest quarters in the Kremlin...
Appetite for Acclaim. On May Day-an occasion notable this year throughout the world for its listlessness as well as its planned lack of proletarian provocation-Nasser became the first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow...
Toasting "our dear guest" as a "national hero," Khrushchev proclaimed: "Ours is a peace-loving, selfless policy. We give to help the people of the Middle East. We want only one thing: consolidation of the position achieved by the Arab peoples." Replying, Nasser reviewed his old line against "imperialism" and "treacherous aggression," thanking his hosts for "your support and your ultimatum, factors which upheld freedom and morale" in the Suez showdown...
However, Rafton "has no idea" how the money needed to establish such a chair could be raised. He suggested that "when you broadcast such an idea, someone might take it up." If funds are not forth-coming, Rafton called for "guest lecturers" in Humanism...
Dodging Bargains. Walter Bareiss, 38, is showing 50 oils, sculptures and drawings in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's Rockefeller Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls...