Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold Holt, on his first Washington visit since taking office, had no such problem. Reflecting Australia's awareness of its own stake in Viet Nam in his arrival address, he graciously assured his smiling host: "In the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend, that will be all the way with L.B.J...
...realized it before, Charles de Gaulle learned as much during his Russian tour last week. Admittedly, he was hoping to lay the groundwork for a European settlement. But as he flew to Soviet Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become...
...Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote, "I never had a dull or idle moment from morning till midnight...
...subbasement to attic. Into the new area will fit conference and committee rooms, 109 offices for Congressmen, a pair of auditoriums seating 400 each, cafeterias and dining rooms seating 1,600 people. Many of the new facilities, including those for eating, are designed to handle tourists who now visit the Capitol at a rate of 30,000 a day. Every detail of the present painted sandstone exterior will be copied as exactly as possible in durable white marble. However, an added triangular pediment, similar to the one already in place over the east front, and several columns worth of widening...
...Happy Ending. Was Boswell downhearted? Not for long. After a thrilling visit to the chief of the Corsican rebels, he dashed off an eloquent Account of Corsica and found himself suddenly a bestselling author. Three years, four courtships and five mistresses later, Boswell was well established as an Edin burgh advocate, and at 29 married an impecunious cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than...