Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to be accepted-loved and enjoyed for his own personal worth. If the Mrs. Brookes and May Britts outnumbered the Stokely Carmichaels and Rap Browns of the U.S., we could leave the rioting to those nice, white little college boys and girls who have enough money to visit Florida every year...
...lost between offices unless he helps them along with "speed money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped...
...peace." His opposition to the U.S., to the war in Viet Nam and to British entry into the Common Market, he explained, is all "appropriately French." He applied the same phrase to the curiously irresponsible call for a "Free Quebec" that he issued during last month's state visit to Canada...
...Manhattan office, along with white suburbanites. Yet he has more of the knight errant in him than merely the song. On the night of June 22, after New York police disclosed a plot by the Revolutionary Action Movement to murder Young and other Negro leaders, he paid a late visit to Harlem to see for himself how he stood in the ghetto, where Martin Luther King was once stabbed by a Negro. Young found no menace, but one Harlemite asked him: "When are we going to get smart and stop killing each other...
...third wife and two male friends. The suspected weapon: insulin.* The list of Archerd's wives, relatives and acquaintances who have died after manifesting symptoms of insulin poisoning is indeed striking. The first was William Jones Jr., 34, in 1947, who died the day after Archerd paid a visit to his hospital sickbed. The motive, if any, is unknown. The second-and certainly the weirdest case-was that of bride No. 4, Zella, 48, who died in 1956. Two months after their marriage, Archerd told police in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, two burglars entered their house. With...