Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing thin and weary, Dulles nonetheless waved off Ike's offer of a place on a sofa-"No, no, no"-and sat on a chair while the group posed for photographs under an Eisenhower oil portrait of Winston Churchill. The visit to Dulles, planned to last only 30 minutes, stretched on for nearly an hour as the leaders of the U.S. and Britain got down to the crisis of Berlin and West Germany. Indomitable John Foster Dulles drove home a vital point: let's talk about East-West negotiations but not deals-and any negotiations must...
...repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about to set up a "Murder Inc.," as Governor Sir Arthur Benson alleged. Lord Perth. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, arriving from London on a visit, announced that he had no doubt whatsoever that such a plot existed. But when asked whether he had seen the evidence, Lord Perth haughtily shifted position: "I believe it when a governor says something. I see no reason to look into it further...
Laura was only 2½, but so well adjusted for her age-she rarely cried and never had tantrums-that her doctors and parents had no qualms when she was admitted to London's Tavistock Clinic to have an umbilical hernia repaired. Her mother could visit Laura every day, and she would be home in a week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought...
This novel has most of the elements of a fine murder mystery, but is written far better than most and leaves the reader with a wry, ironic aftertaste. Swiss Author Duerrenmatt showed Broadway, in The Visit, how an existentialist allegory of human greed and corruption can be made into exciting theater, especially if Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are on hand (TIME, May 19). The Pledge uses a grisly crime to show how a man's stubborn faith can be defeated by a combination of senseless accident and faithlessness on the part of his fellows...
Three poet-representatives of the socalled "beat generation" made their first formal visit to the University community last night in New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Law School Forum and the newly formed Harvard Poetry Forum...