Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reel One: No sooner had FBI agents arrived on the scene than wild cries of "brutality" began to rise. After a visit by FBImen, a woman witness cut her wrists in a dramatic-but curiously unconvincing-gesture toward suicide. The janitor at the jail in Poplarville, questioned by agents, swallowed a nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought...
Though smaller (60 Moscow newsmen, 65 correspondents in Russia and ten abroad), Izvestia is every bit as profitable as big brother: on a recent visit to this country, Assistant Editor A. G. Baulin confided to a U.S. publisher that the paper reaps an annual profit of $10 million, clears 2? on every copy it sells...
...Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian is the only time-consuming activity Professor Schlesinger has allowed himself. This commission was established by the Fund for the Republic after Congress in 1953 resolved to abolish all Indian reservations as soon as possible. The commission's job is to visit the Indians and see if they are ready to be integrated into society. This work naturally takes the professor away from Cambridge part of the time...
...When he was still teaching he and Mrs. Schlesinger used to hold open tea at their home on Sunday afternoons, and his students were welcome to drop in at any time. Since his retirement, most of the students he used to know have graduated, thus only a few ever visit...
...this one on several occasions in the past, they are not likely to accept it now. Almost any form of re-unification could be acceptable to the West, except one that involved the entry of Soviet troops into West Germany (Russian soldiers form rapid attachments to places they visit, and they just hate to go home). The Soviets seem to be taking the attitude of "Nobody really wants to unify Germany" and are concentrating rather on hardening and formalizing the lines that currently divide Europe...