Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ranh Bay, Comic Bob Hope marked his 25th year entertaining U.S. servicemen in the field with some well-received variations on well-known routines. Sample: "You Catholics will be glad to know you can now eat Spam on Fridays." Traveling much the same circuit during his first Viet Nam visit, Evangelist Billy Graham was astounded at the size of his turnouts. When 2,500 G.I.s showed up to hear him at Long Binh, 13 miles from Saigon, he said: "Somebody must have told you Bob Hope was coming...
...bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow could not agree on terms to renew their informal "humanitarian" pact to allow West Berliners to visit relatives living in the Communist sector of the city...
...even trying to patch up relations with Egypt's Nasser, who was so miffed by Boumediene's overthrow of President Ahmed ben Bella 18 months ago that he personally quashed a conference of neutral nations sched uled for Algeria. Last month Boumediene made his first state visit to Cairo, and suddenly the two Arab leaders were touring the capital like old friends-all smiles...
...begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
...week visit to the U.S. left French Author François Sagan, 31, with a certain smile. "In America, they trust you," she wrote in the weekly Candide. "They will lend you their cars, their apartments, anything. They are so open that it's troubling. The taxi driver tells you his life story, salesgirls call you 'honey.'" Hélas, she also found much tristesse: "Americans are afraid, afraid of everything, especially of losing their position, of being sick, of not being able to pay their installments on time. And of their redoubtable women they are afraid...