Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING. An arid intellectual and his sex-parched wife arrive in London from the U.S. to visit his bull walrus of a father and two brothers in a house the family calls the "land of no holds barred." He eventually flees, but she stays on-with pleasure. Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company give the latest puzzle from Playwright Harold Pinter a polished, tempered performance...
Silenced by Events. For William Childs Westmoreland, 53, the visit to the U.S. coincided with a new notch-up in the war: the bombing of half a dozen formerly proscribed targets in the North, including two MIG bases. The Administration, which previously had minimized each increase in the war effort, now clearly signaled its determination to put every possible pressure on Hanoi. Among its critics, there was growing apprehension over the war's direction, duration and denouement-a fear that the U.S. and its antagonists were swiftly approaching the point where a little slip could mean...
...time being, though, the debate raged at such high-decibel levels that Westmoreland might well have yearned for the less complicated hostilities of the war zone during his visit. Almost from the moment he flew in from Hawaii to an Air Force base near West Point, he was caught in the political crossfire. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright charged that he had been brought back to "shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota...
Challenge was at its most flexible--and least effective--in the only one of this year's innovations to fail--the advisor program. There are about 30 advisors, each with two or three students. The advisors are supposed to visit students at home, talk to their parents, and take the boys on trips. Once every two weeks advisors are asked to meet with teachers to discuss student problems. But most advisors are less committed to Challenge than the teachers. Some have hardly ever seen their advisees. Attendance at the meeting with Challenge teachers has been poor...
...Agent Vladimir Kazan, a Czech-born American citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of its revolution, expects 2,000,000 visitors (about 40,000 of them Americans), and is laying on 140 special trains and extra Aeroflot flights...