Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accumulating. With the construction of needed buildings, the improvement of the library, the addition of Ph.D.s to the faculty (15 as compared with only seven three years ago), and a student body increased from 810 to 944, the school has high hopes of finally gaining accreditation. A committee will visit the campus in October as a first step toward that long-sought-after goal. "I don't think we'd even get this visit," says Pitts, "if TIME hadn...
...Forget Us." Whatever the polls may say about his popularity, the President's fellow Democrats are anx ious to have him drop in. When word got out of his visit to Detroit, ten Michigan Democrats asked him to speak in their congressional districts. California's embattled Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown has invited him out West at least three times, on one occasion said imploringly, "Don't forget us." High on the priority list for presidential visits are 48 districts where freshmen Democrats who were swept into office in the 1964 landslide are struggling to keep constituents from...
...biggest escape route is tourism. By year's end, Eastern European countries will have permitted more than 750,000 of their people to visit the West. Despite careful screening, some 35,000 of them will have defected. "One emigrant in a party is within the allowed margin," says an Eastern European tour guide. "When you lose six or seven, they start asking questions." Of 17 Hungarians who visited Stockholm last May, nine stayed behind. On a tour of Greece this summer, the Rumanian State Opera lost a soprano, a ballerina, the first cellist and a violinist...
Pursuing fresh Balkan ties, Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu made a point of taking his vacation in Bulgaria in July, bringing to six the number of top-level visits between the two nations this year. Long-independent Red Yugoslavia, not to be left out, has sent Premier Peter Stambolic on a working holiday to Bulgaria, and has docketed him for Greece in October. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister meanwhile has gone to Turkey, which Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer visited last month. And last week, in the first visit to the Aegean kingdom ever made by a Communist Premier, Maurer flew...
...three days of toasts, banquets and amicable discussions, Maurer echoed Ceausescu's theme of cooperation in the Balkans by means of bilateral relations. The Rumanians made a fair start in Greece: at visit's end, the two nations initiated a communique covering not only trade and economic cooperation but also such esoteric items as telecommunications and plant-disease control...