Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israel, a British legation official dropped in to visit Dr. Chaim Weizmann, chatted pleasantly and left after a while with a signed paper that finally relieved Israel's President of his British citizenship...
...Schweitzer is making his first visit to the U.S. to deliver the principal address at a festival launched last week in Aspen, Colo., honoring the 200th anniversary of Goethe's birth. He had never come before, some of his friends have said, largely because of what he has -heard about U.S. publicity and ballyhoo methods. But all through his first ordeal-by-press he seemed to be having a fine time. He turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed...
...working on his address and resting. Though Poet-Philosopher Goethe is one of his favorite subjects (in 1928 he received the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize*), he had not really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman of the U.S. Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, came a persuader that set Dr. Schweitzer to brooding. The foundation...
...last week, the tired, 73-year-old terrorist was resting alone in a second-floor bedroom of his house in Seoul. Shortly after noon, a young Korean army lieutenant, known to the police who guarded the "Tiger's" home dropped in for a visit. He talked with Kim Koo for about five minutes. Then he drew a .45-caliber automatic and fired six shots; four of them struck Kim Koo, who died almost instantly. Later, police reported that the lieutenant had slain Kim Koo to prevent him from using part of the Korean army "for his own purposes...
Recently, Tokyo moppets made friends with personable young Himansu Neogy, a Calcutta exporter who had taken time off during a business trip to visit the city's schools. They gave him bouquets of flowers, posed with him for group pictures. When Neogy was about to go back to India, they begged him to intercede on their behalf with Prime Minister Nehru to send them an Indian elephant...