Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing I noticed and liked about the U.S. on my first visit this year was the impression one got that the scene is still actually run by adults. Fashions, attitudes, morality, radio, TV and newspapers still seem to be geared to the serious and responsible rather than to the kinky and groovy. Nice. Amazing...
...include all Moslems, but clearly had the aim of rallying anti-Nasser leaders into a single alliance. So far, Feisal has strong support from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia; he also enjoys sympathy from Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. This month the King plans to visit Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel and, in September, Morocco's King Hassan II and possibly Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba...
Nonetheless, Lemnitzer gamely paid an inspection visit to Chièvres. Though Belgian officials wanted to helicopter him to the place, he insisted on riding the winding, potholed highway, a 1½-hour trip that the Belgians insist can be speeded up by a superhighway they have in mind. The little town itself boasts 3,171 inhabitants. Only a two-minute walk from grazing cows and wheat fields, it has four cafés, none of which will ever make the pages of Michelin. Chièvres' chief offerings are a 16th century Gothic chapel and a brewery...
Lemnitzer paid an unscheduled visit to another possible site only eleven miles from Brussels, but it has an unfortunate name for a military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...
...complaint that he and about 530 other home builders from around the U.S. brought before their Congressmen last week in a one-day lobbying visit was simple: their industry is in a perilous condition. Competition for deposits between commercial banks, which lend primarily to business, and savings institutions, which lend mortgage money, has grown so fierce that the supply of mortgage funds is dwindling and higher interest rates are scaring away home buyers...