Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's problems are hardly new, as Rabbi Issar Yehuda Unterman, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, took occasion to remind him in a brief, unofficial visit. King David, said the whitebearded rabbi, had also been assailed by "seemingly insoluble problems of state"-yet had surmounted them with divine guidance...
Tiring. Fulbright's Victorian vaporings over Viet Nam stirred an immediate and indignant rejoinder from a somewhat more sophisticated observer: Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, 61, a member of President Johnson's Committee on the Status of Women, freshly returned from a visit to Saigon. Noting that womanizing "goes on everywhere," including Washington, Mrs. Lord reported that she had seen plenty of off-duty G.I.s in Viet Nam not "in town with the bar girls" but out helping in orphanages and rehabilitation centers...
...then as out of favor for refusing to work on the H-bomb, and finally, after Stalin's death, as director of the Soviet space program. Last week, to almost everyone's surprise, Kapitsa, now 71, stepped off a Soviet jetliner in London for a three-week visit to Britain...
...Your visit is unique," said Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol in the understatement of this or many another year. West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 90, stood in Jerusalem with his old friend ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, 79, and declared: "Your hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch...
...difficult genre, but Miss Ross has mastered it and added a dimension of her own. She says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses, and pencils. On another visit to the U.N. (one of her favorite haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt...