Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear on some primary ballots (though not in New Hampshire), perhaps benefit from write-ins elsewhere, and do some traveling to keep in trim. Next week he plans to speak at party fund-raising events in Tulsa, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and St. Louis, make an address in New York and visit Washington. Nixon returns from his holiday this week to receive a Boy Scout award in New York and appear at a Richmond Chamber of Commerce meeting and on the Washington and Lee University campus. He is expected to make a formal announcement of his candidacy before his next scheduled appearance...
...next in line for speculative attack. That warning was actually aimed at Congressman Wilbur Mills in an attempt to gain support for the domestic surtax proposal, but its chief result was to further fan speculation and cause a heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month's unprecedented visit by Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming to a meeting in Basel of the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby group of bankers who pointedly exclude government officials, started frenzied rumors that the U.S. was proposing some drastic step. That set off another round of speculation, which, by expert estimate, cost...
...Israelis in June. At a gathering in the Kremlin, Tito took aside Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a corridor and upbraided him for his refusal to toe the pro-Arab line. He then went home in a fury and canceled an invitation to Ceauseşcu to visit him in Belgrade...
...Visits to Aunt Magda. In Bulgaria, 19% of all cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc...
...rulers stress thrift, churchgoing and close family ties. They are hospitable to foreigners; outside the capital of Accra, billboards that once proclaimed "Down with Neo-Colonialism" now read "Ghana Welcomes Foreign Investment." One sure sign that Ghana is a different place these days was the friendly visit there last week by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the first top U.S. official to visit Ghana since Richard Nixon went to its independence celebrations...