Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of State Dean Rusk has cancelled plans to visit the Boston area tomorrow. He originally planned to meet with several Harvard professors...
...Tigers, who visit Soldiers Field this Saturday, held back some of their stars and still had no trouble wiping out Brown at Princeton. Tiger coach Dick Colman avoided using his starting tailback Rob Weber, and several starting linemen also spent the game on the bench, apparently resting up for the Harvard-Princeton match...
...Gaulle's visit was staged in his usual royal manner. His advance party of 1,000 gendarmes prowled all over the principality looking for potential troublemakers, and even refused to let Andorra's 16-man militia fire a welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor...
...twisting road back to France, Andorrans wondered why their French Co-Prince had decided to come. De Gaulle spoke of building a technical school in Andorra and of connecting the principality by tunnel with France, but those announcements could have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop for tax-free bargains...
...first time in Christian history, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople last week set foot in Rome. Accompanied by four of his Metropolitans, Athenagoras I, the spiritual primate of Orthodoxy, arrived by jet for the third of his historic, symbolic encounters with Pope Paul VI. The three-day visit was, in a sense, a return engagement, inspired by the Pope's trip to Istanbul last July...