Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which German ambassadors to France have lived for most of the past 150 years. The banquet had a double purpose: to celebrate the return of the palace, seized by the French at the end of World War II, and to set the mood for this week's visit by Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt. Of such importance was the occasion, in fact, that West German President Heinrich Lübke had flown in from Bonn to act as De Gaulle's host...
There is much strength in the arguments of Richard Gill against the resolution adopted by the Student-Faculty Advisory Council last Tuesday, which recommends the postponement of Dow Chemical's imminent visit. However, the Council had a definite, simple and limited objective: to avoid a new confrontation not only between the students and the company but also between the students and the University, so as to give to the Council's members a chance to work dispassionately toward the adoption of a common policy on recruiting (a subject on which there are at present very strongly opposed views, based...
...Council to recommend the suspension of all recruitment at Harvard until it has reached an agreement on the subject would have constituted overkill. Not to have asked for a postponement of Dow's visit and to have, so to speak, left unattended the risk of a new crisis would have prejudged the issue even more; for if the crisis occurs, the "free and unprejudiced discussion of the full range of issues now before the Council" that Professor Gill, along with the Council's members, calls for will become quite impossible. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
...word Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, used in defending the Dow resolution (which he proposed) was "prudence." The Council was not making any substantive decisions, he said, but was merely asking the Administration to be prudent and postpone the Dow visit. The same prudence led the Council to ask that Fouts be seated--instead of asking that all Dow probations be lifted. And had Peretz's motion been called to a vote and accepted, it would have been prudence that asked for the ban on military recruitment because of the Hershey directive...
...Constance M. Park, a graduate representative, supported a resolution at last week's meeting that would have denounced the War, denounced Dow's participation in the War effort, and would have then called for the postponement of the Dow visit...