Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gonzale Bautista, governor of the state of Puebla, Mexico, and Dr Francisco Casttllo Najera, Mexican ambassador to the United States, will arrive in Boston and Cambridge April 5 for a five-day visit under the suspices of the University Observatory. Their visit will be an acknowledgement of Harvard's cooperation in construction of a new Mexican national observatory, opened in Tonauzintla, Puebla, February...
...Times published this blunt declaration and appeal on the eve of Anthony Eden's visit to the U.S. (see p. 9) and two days after Ambassador Standley spoke up for the U.S. in Russia (see col. 3). The Times may have spoken out of turn, but London's one-great "Thunderer" does speak the mind of a potent section of British opinion. Its editorial was no more nor less than an extension of the point of view implicit in the Anglo-Russian pact which Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin arranged...
Last month Dr. Giacobini wrote to the Pope, asking him "in my capacity as founder and president of the Partido Salud Publica" to end the war. He has not received an answer, but he is convinced that Archbishop Spellman's visit to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22) was closely related to his letter. Elated by this success, Dr. Giacobini decided last week to address similar epistles to President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, offering himself as Mediator for World...
...thumb and a first finger. At a military demonstration he sat next to King George for half an hour, exchanged only a how-do-you-do and a goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
...visit to the Mayo Clinic: "So far as I could see, I was the only person in that town who wasn't either on wheels or walking around with a string hanging out of his mouth...