Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Visit...
Under a line of umbrellas held aloft by soldiers in dress blues, the President of the U.S. walked briskly along a red carpet toward the presidential plane Columbine III. Down from the aircraft stepped another President: scholarly Arturo Frondizi, first Argentine chief of state ever to visit the U.S. Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greeted the visitor with warm handshakes, and Dulles' wife Janet smilingly handed Sefiora Elena de Frondizi a bouquet of red roses. Then, in keeping with the printed "Inclement Weather Plan" of the State Department's think-of-everything protocol section, visitors...
...brotherhood" visit, as Frondizi himself put it, so the two Presidents had little official business to transact. That night Ike gave a white-tie dinner for the visitors at the White House, met with Frondizi two days later to chat about U.S.Argentine relations. Frondizi, through an interpreter, firmly told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. should fight the threat of economic chaos in Latin America as positively as it would counter an attack "from an extracontinental power." In between engagements he calmly kept in touch with simmering trouble at home (see HEMISPHERE...
...this airy note last week, Britain's most indefatigable tourist began his rugged tour as the first member of the British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of his chores. There was lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip...
...they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia's eyes, Washington had refused to grant him the $100 million he wanted...