Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal went unanswered by North Viet Nam, which has already flouted the Geneva Convention by parading U.S. prisoners before hostile street mobs, by refusing to allow Red Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less grisly than the possibility of their execution was the prospect that Hanoi's leaders may "spare" their American prisoners-only to sentence them to forced labor in installations likely to come under U.S. bombing attack-even though the convention specifies that prisoners can be put to work only on projects...
...wrote Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko in Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing his nice, good, old pal John Steinbeck, whom he met during the author's 1963 visit to Russia. Evtushenko was scolding Steinbeck for not speaking out against the Vietnamese...
...performance was part of a ten-concert series by the orchestra at Stanford. Though the Suisse Romande is well known to American audiences from its recordings, this was the orchestra's first visit to the U.S. As debuts go, it was a grueling test. Ansermet (pronounced ahn-ser-may) led his 115-member ensemble through a symphonic obstacle course, accepting the challenge of some of the thorniest works of Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev and Berg. As if that were not enough, Ansermet then jetted to Manhattan to conduct five equally demanding works with the New York Philharmonic last week...
After July 23, the group will spend five days in Washington, probably speaking with Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Undersecretary of Latin American Affairs and Senators Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Edward M. Kennedy '54. On August 3 they will begin a few days' visit to the U.N. and various museums in New York before their return flight to Brazil...
...cleaned by a simple hosing down. Originally intended mainly for patios, Ozite is spreading to schools, supermarkets, kitchens, and is carpeting yachts gunwale to gunwale. Dyed cardinal red, it was used last year to cover the altar set up in Yankee Stadium for Pope Paul's visit. Hoping that consumers will think up more tasks for the product, admen have settled on a simple slogan: "Use your imagination...