Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, also back from a visit to Brit ain, told the Bundestag that "a negative decision would mean stagnation...
...ship U.S. Sixth Fleet. Now 45 to 55 Soviet ships, including missile-firing destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come so close to U.S. vessels that the Americans must...
Like all such bubbles, the one in Brazil may burst, or at least shrink. Many a deed buyer, making the first visit to his acreage, has found that it is 24 hours by Jeep from the nearest city, or that he must put in roads, irrigation and other costly improvements before it has any lasting value. While a few U.S. farmers say that they can grow everything from rice to cotton in the soil of Goias and Bahia, others have found their land nearly infertile. Since homesteads are not staked out and land records in Brazil are chaotic, ownership, moreover...
...long ago, in company with several others, I made a project site visit to a great Southern university. During the course of that visit we were told about a man on their wards who had been hopelessly unconscious for more than a year. He got pneumonia. The question was, should he be treated? He was. And the reasons he was treated do not reflect any very great credit on his institution. He was treated, as the medical personnel pointed out, "because the nurses made us do it." This was neither a humanitarian nor a medical decision: it was simply...