Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baudouin's first state visit to a foreign country since he became King on the abdication of his father, Leopold III, in 1951. A shy, serious bachelor who hates pomp and loves sport (golf, billiards, swimming, skiing, motorcycling), the King said in good English that he came from "a country old enough to have been spoken of proudly by Julius Caesar,"* called America the "land of youth," drew according nods from Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, 76, and Rhode Island...
Senator Theodore Francis Green, 91. Beginning a 21-day visit to the U.S., the King of the Belgians crisscrossed Washington with the crowded schedule of a dignitary and the limitless curiosity of a high school student on a senior-class trip to the capital. He laid wreaths at Mount Vernon and the Tomb of the Unknowns, was briefed on outer space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, lunched in the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, discovered a portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging...
...Bolshoi's visit may yet prove to be the best thing that ever happened to U.S. dance-if only because it sharpens appreciation of the spirit of restless experimentation that animates a company like the New York City Ballet. Last week, before leaving New York, the Bolshoi company watched the City Ballet rehearse three works by George Balanchine (see below). The Russians applauded the U.S. group's discipline, but were clearly puzzled by a modern style alien to their own. At one point during Stravinsky's atonal Agon (1957), Ballerina Galina Ulanova unbelievingly recalled an earlier...
...Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A deep-diving visit to wrecked ships that have littered the ocean floor off France's south coast from as far back...
Hanfstaengl's visit to the University at that time was charged with controversy following a CRIMSON editorial entitled "Render Unto Caesar," suggesting that, since "he has risen to distinguished station," it would be appropriate to award him an honorary degree...