Word: vip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Principal offshoot of the Red propaganda missions has been an upsurge in visits behind the Bamboo Curtain by Latin Americans. Last year 37 delegations, most of them going through Russia first, got the VIP tour; so far this year, more than 40 have entered China. By and large, they have found the going good-and said so. Colombia's Congressman Horacio Rodriguez Plata climaxed a Peking banquet by praising China's "defense of peace." Rasped Chile's former Minister of the Interior Guillermo del Pedregal to Peking University students: "U.S. imperialism is our common archenemy...
...booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective. Ranging from Sacramento to Los Angeles on a three-day visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions...
...office No. 2E800 on the Pentagon's select second-floor "E" ring, behind a VIP desk, sits a tall, somber man handsomely dressed in a conservative suit of dark blue. No general, no admiral, but a civilian, he has the imposing job of seeing that the story of national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial...
...year-old divorcee, wrote to everyone who got the release, blamed all on her handwriting rather than on the typist who misread her scribbled "adventurous" for "adulterous." Last week, despite, and/or because of Lois' too curved pitch, the Cabana was packed to its plush eaves with adventurous VIP first-nighters. Lois could take little solace from the smash opening; the Cabana's owners had let her contract lapse. Said she: "It's a good thing I'm in business for myself. I don't think I could...
Thus, as Nixon headed back home at week's end in an Air Force VIP DC-6B, Britain's press tacitly admitted that here, at least, was a man who knew his business thoroughly and therefore merited respect -in Britain, more than a casual recommendation, and for U.S.-British friendship more than a casual plus. Summed up the New York Times's London Correspondent Drew Middleton: "Nixon arrived billed as an uncouth adventurer in the political jungles, departed trailing clouds of statesmanship and esteem. In four days here filled with opportunities for the most horrendous mistakes...