Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...
From the Soviet point of view, it was a disturbing fact that Mikoyan's trip had made no visible dent in the unity of the Western allies. British and French officialdom, in a rare vote of confidence in U.S. diplomatic skill, admiringly agreed that Washington had handled Mikoyan adroitly. In West Germany the U.S. had accomplished the diplomatic equivalent of the hat trick. While rock-hard Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rejoiced in his belief that the U.S. had "held firm" against Mikoyan's blandishments, the opposition Social Democratic Party was happily convinced that the U.S. had displayed "new flexibility...
...this airy note last week, Britain's most indefatigable tourist began his rugged tour as the first member of the British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of his chores. There was lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip...
Newsmen from all over the world rated top priority with rebel couriers, who escorted them into the hills. For his 1957 interview with New York Timesman Herbert Matthews, Castro made a dangerous trip to the foothills, got invaluable publicity from the U.S.'s most prestigious paper. Other reporters, getting past army checkpoints as "engineer" or "sugar planter," had to make an arduous climb, but they were rewarded with long, friendly chats. To oblige CBS, the rebels took in 160 lbs. of television equipment. One big-paper correspondent on his way up was crestfallen to discover a reporter from...
Other businessmen talked of renting a boat for a weekend "fishing trip with the boys," stocking the boat with girls as well as fishbait. By Monday morning, said one fishing host of his client, "you know he'll do anything to help...