Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Composer Gian Carlo Menotti acts as a guide for a visit to last summer's "Festival of Two Worlds" at Spoleto, Italy...
...last week offered a vibrant welcome to an Asian statesman who stands to lose more than an argument if the U.S. reneges on its commitments across the Pacific. Only ten months after a resounding election victory, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines flew to Washington for a state visit that meant far more to him, and his hosts, than the usual red-carpeted round of pleasantries. For Marcos, it represented a threefold opportunity - to renew a long-standing bond of friendship with the U.S., to make a case for increased U.S. aid to bail out his stagnating econ...
...Ivory Coast's U.S. ambassador since 1961, Bédié became one of Washington's best-liked foreign diplomats. Last week on a farewell visit to Washington he proposed a reduction on Ivory Coast import tariffs in return for increased U.S. purchases of Ivorian products. He was also casting about for increased U.S. capital investment in the Ivory Coast. From a U.S. viewpoint, the generous "tax holidays" the Ivory Coast is willing to grant in return for investments make the idea attractive. But there is an Ivorian benefit too: every new U.S. investor makes Houphouet-Boigny...
...bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars believe that the figure at the easel in Allegory of Painting very likely represents the Delft master himself...
...During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon. Khrushchev reminded Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to use the incident to his advantage. Through an unnamed "high-ranking" Republican, explained Khrushchev, Nixon "approached us with the request to release the crew members of the American RB-47. We of course understood that Nixon wished to make political capital out of this for himself in advance...