Word: visitant
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Painful Decision. Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit...
Luce was interested in the young and what they thought. Only a few days before his death, on a visit to San Francisco, he insisted on being taken to the Haight-Ashbury beatnik district to observe how today's far-out young play. Whatever was new fascinated him; he could sense development and innovation. Recently, discussing the supersonic transport with one of his reporters, he asked: "When will I be able to fly in it?" He was also interested in the Rule of Law, which became practically a crusade with him as he persuaded Presidents and Prime Ministers to push...
...newsmen at New York's Kennedy Airport had a little trouble with titles when Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 80, arrived with his wife for a three-week visit to the U.S. Some reporters called the indestructible old statesman "Mr.," others "Prime Minister." The Mrs. set them straight. "Ben-Gurion would be the nicest thing," she said. "Prime Minister anyone could be-Ben-Gurion nobody could be." Said B. G. with a smile: "I'm not responsible for her answers." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller got all mixed up too. When...
...patience, his durability, his tolerance that many Faculty members admired in the handling of the McNamara incident and the planning for the Goldberg visit in February. Monro talked for long periods with members of SDS, and many Faculty members give him a major part of the credit for heading off a real confrontation. A more impulsive man, they say, might have provoked serious trouble...
Ever since Pitts first asked Monro to visit Miles as a consultant on General Education in 1963, the 54 year old Harvard dean has devoted his summers to developing Miles's instructional program in writing for students who would be entering their freshman year of college...