Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't object to the draft itself," he says. "I expected to be called eventually, but for me the timing was all wrong." During his first angry visit to the draft board, Gary was told to come back with another letter from Cal State testifying to his student status. He did. His induction was postponed, but only until Feb. 1. Grimly, Gary Wilson began a patient-and unrewarding-series of visits to the draft board office. "I'd go down there, wait three hours to see someone," he said, "and I'd get nowhere. I was getting...
...three-year konfrontasi with Malaysia. Instead, the Indonesian officers came on a mission of peace. Stepping from the plane at Kuala Lumpur, they exchanged embraces with waiting Malaysian officials, then were driven to meet Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak for breakfast and talks. Declared Razak after the meeting: "The visit has created a very congenial and happy atmosphere. You can begin to see the ending of the confrontation...
...competitors, is also eying the potentially rich geriatrics market, which now accounts for about 8% of sales. Old folks like easily digested baby foods. But they are embarrassed to buy them, usually shove the cans or jars along supermarket counters with the explanation that grandchildren are coming to visit. The baby-food firms understandably have been reluctant to try the hard sell in the delicate old folks' market. But it would be no great surprise if, one of these days, oldsters were to start getting letters from Mrs. Dan Gerber, grandmother...
...standing on the world's best-dressed-women list. One recent visit required walking five miles each way to reach a remote village, where the couple presented gifts of food and medicine to the primitive, opium-growing hill people, frequent targets of Red subversion campaigns. Their tribal leaders value nothing more than the tiny silver medals distributed by the King, and increasingly these days refer to themselves, thanks to the King's and Queen's evangelism, as "the children of the Thai...
...Rumanian Foreign Ministry spokesman blandly denied that such a letter had been circulated, there was little doubt of its existence. Its corrosive contents fit perfectly with the nationalistic attitudes of Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, whose stinging anti-Soviet speech only a week earlier had triggered a flying visit from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...