Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communiqué, the President and Mrs. Gandhi agreed that there should be a "just and peaceful solution of this problem" and that Red China's aggressive policies "pose a threat to peace, particularly in Asia." That night, calling at the Indian Embassy ostensibly to make a brief farewell visit, the President stayed so long talking with Mrs. Gandhi that he was finally invited to remain for the black-tie dinner. "I'm happy to be asked," said the business-suited Johnson, thus causing a protocol scramble and breaking his own practice of never accepting reciprocal invitations from state...
...Practically everywhere she went on her U.S. visit, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was smothered with roses, which are her symbol as well as her late father's. Lady Bird Johnson handed Mrs. Gandhi a dozen red American Beauties right after she disembarked from a helicopter on the White House lawn; later the Indian leader was variously presented with more red roses, yellow roses, artificial roses, an impressionistic painting of a rose and a gilded rose from Tiffany's. All of them could serve well to symbolize the result of her five-day visit: a new flowering...
...Chinese come visiting? With their ideological enemies, the Russians, dominating Communist headlines at the Soviet 23rd Party Congress in Moscow, Peking had to show that there was at least one "nonaligned" capital where they could visit without fear of insult. Ayub...
...third is Chen P'an-t'ing, deputy squad leader of the Machine Gun Company. In September, after returning from a visit to his family, he showed some dissatisfaction with the grain situation, and said: "Some people are saying in China there once appeared a Sun Yat-sen and the grain was piled sky-high." Twenty days later he was reported to the Deputy Political Director for "reactionary remarks." Fearing "some kind of punishment," Chen used a Thompson gun to kill himself...
...visit to the Vatican last week by the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Anglican Primate of All England, was shadowed by enmities past and lighted by amity present. Apart from a 1960 "courtesy visit" to John XXIII by Ramsey's predecessor, Geoffrey Fisher, no Archbishop of Canterbury had called on a Pope since Archbishop Arundel went to see Boniface IX in 1397, long before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Distrust of the papacy still persists strongly in Britain. Hitchhiking aboard the airliner winging Ramsey to Rome were five unwelcome ministers of Baptist and Presbyterian sects, who on arrival doffed their...