Word: vips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellow Travelers. By all odds the most interesting VIP to arrive in the U.S. last week was Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. It was difficult indeed for the free world to accept the picture of Chou giving pleasant little dinner parties for democratic diplomats in Bandung, or Khrushchev reeling with conviviality in Belgrade - but Molotov's change of pace was almost unbelievable. Twenty years of treachery and invective toward the West had made Molotov a symbol of the fanatic, devious, hate-filled Old Bolshevik. Now, like good Communists everywhere, he was suddenly trying to win friends and influence people...
Ahead of schedule and with a few minutes to kill, the Military Air Transport Service Constellation taxied slowly across Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week. Promptly at 4 o'clock, at the VIP side of the MATS terminal, the Connie's door opened and out stepped President Paul Eugène Magloire of Haiti. Vice President Richard Nixon stepped forward to wring the visiting chief of state's hand, while Mrs. Nixon presented Mrs. Magloire with red roses...
...most exacting, endless jobs in the world: representing the U.S. in all non-political relations with foreign officials. As the Government's top public-relations man, Simmons is as busy as the White Rabbit in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. He is the VIP's avenue to President Eisenhower, a caterer who solves some global gastronomic problems,* handyman for royalty, custodian of the Great Seal of the United States, and Washington's most indefatigable partygoer...
...inscrutable Premier and his chic wife swam easily through the usual VIP routine of ceremonials, speeches and official wining and dining. At the White House Mendès discussed the Saar agreement with President Eisenhower for nearly an hour, then topped off a steak luncheon with a big glass of milk. At the Senate he was greeted warmly, and at the statue of La Fayette, opposite the White House, he placed a wreath of white chrysanthemums...
This week the royal grandmother, joining in the observance of Columbia University's 200th anniversary, donned a black cap and gown and marched with another touring VIP, Germany's sturdy old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in a solemn convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Awarding her an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Columbia cited her as more than a queen. Said the citation: "A gifted musician, accomplished linguist, and understanding student of the arts...