Word: host
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bucharest, a languid and Latinate city, will be the scene of a major development in East-West relations. It will become the first Communist capital ever to play host to an American President. The Rumanian capital is already busy getting ready for the 20-hour state visit. The Rumanian army band must learn to play The Star-Spangled Banner, a notoriously difficult capitalist number...
Shaplen's literary style, which rambles over many a back road, is occasionally illuminated by bright, incisive flashes. Describing Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, Shaplen writes that ''his innate sense of showmanship and his graciousness as a host make his sporadic unveilings of the country seem like Happenings." Generally, as befits a man who has studied a depressing scene for more than 20 years, he is cautious, measured in his judgments, rarely hortatory. He does make hard and clear, however, what he regards as a notable danger. Rudely stated, it is that the U.S., which will probably...
That movement hit its high-water mark two years ago, when the Kennedy Round of world trade negotiations produced the deepest industrial tariff cuts ever made. Since then, protectionism has been staging a global comeback and has involved the U.S. in disputes with many nations. In Europe, a host of new nontariff barriers have partly offset the cuts in duties. Special taxes on imports last year helped West Germany to record a surplus in trade with the U.S. for the first time...
...Faculty Audit Program, which plays host to 20 faculty members of Southern Negro Colleges. The faculty members in this program audit Summer School courses and also attend special seminars...
...suppose that in a year when the Vatican has officially deposed a host of saints on should not be surprised when someone tries to depose Britain's most religious and heroic king. But Shakespeare himself had already taken care of the deposition of a king in the first of the four-play series of which Henry V is properly the shining culmination. Richard II and the two Henry IV plays are markedly greater and more complex works, but Henry V--when allowed to do so--compensates through its ringing patriotism and its moral, legal, and divine certainty. The play...