Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:54 p.m.). Another Hollywood adaptation, this time Gore Vidal's Broadway hit, Visit to a Small Planet (1960), featuring Jerry Lewis as a curious spacenik who spins in from the stratosphere and tries to become an earthling. Repeat...
From the beginning of his planned visit, De Gaulle made it clear that he was coming to see Quebec, more than the nation celebrating its centennial year. Rather than travel first to the federal capital of Ottawa, De Gaulle landed at the French possession of St. Pierre, 15 miles off Newfoundland, and sailed by cruiser up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City-refusing to fly the Canadian flag as protocol dictates...
...visit is timed to coincide with the preparations for the September elections. In the high-pressure atmosphere of the imminent elections, he will probably study the national political personalities, the way in which the Constituent Assembly has been working with the military, and the problem of dealing with the Vietcong. Chances are he will also examine the possible growth of future political factions within the new constitutional framework, and will taken an on-the-spot look at the country's history...
...Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther out can go on to Irkutsk (8 hours from Moscow). There they can visit Lake Baikal, the world's deepest. One taste of its pure waters, and one will thirst for them for life. Or they can ask to see salt mines, which the Russians will gladly show them-they are all automated...
Meanwhile, to their annoyance, New Zealanders were being reminded of George Bernard Shaw's comment when he paid the island a visit 30 years ago: "Altogether too many sheep...