Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab patients are freely admitted to the $30 million Hadassah Medical Center in West Jerusalem. The Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were scheduled with little change in the traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open...
...extend his tour of duty for at least another six months. Only last month, Momyer won his fourth general's star, and it was he who last week greeted Johnson on his surprise trip to Thailand and acted as host for the President's Christmas visit with U.S. pilots at Korat airbase there...
...latest De Gaulle joke in Washington imagines Charles de Gaulle on a visit to the Louvre with Minister of Culture Andre Malraux. "Ah," says le grand Charles, "a Matisse." "Non, mon general, that's a Monet." They move on. "Aha! A Cezanne." "Non, mon general -a Utrillo." A few minutes later, De Gaulle cries: "You can't fool me this time. That is a Picasso." 'Won, mon general," says Malraux sadly. "That is a mirror...
Louis Washkansky began the second week of his second life by eating steak and eggs, his favorite dish. He took his first hesitant steps, a few yards from his bed to an armchair on a sunny balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously...
...average, he spends roughly $200, making a total yearly tourist bonanza for the area of some $72 million. And he may be the best-behaved soldier in history. One R & R officer stationed in Thailand, where the record shows only one serious incident for every 12,000 G.I.s who visit Bangkok, says: "The trouble rate is so low, no one wants to believe it." In Hong Kong, police authorities say that they have more trouble with the resident British garrison than from visiting U.S. servicemen. Busting up bars seems to be something that went out with From Here to Eternity...