Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader and noted organizer of mass demonstrations, will meet with students and faculty members today as a guest of the Kennedy Institute of Politics...
...Swiss pride themselves on discreetly welcoming even the most notorious guest, but even they were hard put last week to keep their cool. Into their midst dropped perhaps the biggest defector ever to leave the Soviet Union, Stalin's daughter Svetlana. That was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the force of 200 reporters and TV cameramen that fanned across the country in search of Svetlana, to whom the Swiss gave a visa and the promise of privacy. While Swiss detectives plotted the newsmen's progress like generals keeping tabs on enemy guerrillas, the international press...
...engineering students at the University of Detroit admitted that they were "too chicken" to call up General Motors themselves. So they contacted the Detroit Free Press's troubleshooting "Action Line" to ask if the paper might be able to arrange a G.M. courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that...
...production of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat last week, Seattle Opera Director Glynn Ross got no less a guest star than Stravinsky, who at 84 flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
Married. Raquel Welch, 24, would-be actress (Fantastic Voyage) and full-time cover girl, at least in Europe, where she reigns as undisputed queen of the newsstands; and Patrick Curtis, 32, her business manager and steady house guest; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris, for which she wore a white peekaboo minidress over a flesh-colored body stocking...