Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Winston & F.D.R. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson followed Ayub by a few hours. On his fifth visit to Washington since Johnson took office, Wilson felt sufficiently at home to josh the President on a sensitive subject. When Johnson commented lightly on the Labor Party's precarious two-seat margin in Parliament, the Prime Minister shot back with a remark about Johnson's "86 votes"-a nearly accurate reference to the scandal-tinged 1948 Texas senatorial primary in which Lyndon squeaked through by 87 votes. The President protested: "You haven't been here six hours...
...moon itself seemed nearer and definitely accessible. Man's technical talents had brought a lunar visit down out of the realm of science fiction. The Apollo program, with its planned lunar landing before the decade runs out, no longer seemed a fanciful goal for overambitious scientists. From the scorched launching pads of Cape Kennedy to the lonely tracking ships in the Pacific, Gemini had pumped new life into U.S. space work. And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts' return with singular pride...
...John Maguire, who was acting head of the New York Archdiocese while Francis Cardinal Spellman was in Rome for the Vatican Council. Archdiocesan officials say that they were "not involved with the reassignment." Berrigan, now staying in Cuernavaca, Mexico, says that he is delighted with the chance to visit Latin America, but that his trip "was arranged mainly to remove me from the movement of protest against the war in Viet...
...tireless, didactic liberal of the ban-the-bomb breed, Cameron worked on Fleet Street papers before he broke loose on his own. He prides himself on getting into areas forbidden to other newsmen, and he wangled permission to visit North Viet Nam for a month this fall. His report is a rare eyewitness account by a Western journalist, but it leaves little doubt of Cameron's own emotional commitment: he firmly believes the U.S. has no business whatsoever in Viet...
...idea worth discussing. He has the right to do so." At the same time, Atwood finds certain qualities in his students that he feels non-Southern schools should envy. "These kids are not bearded ruffians and sloppy kids," he says. "They write thank-you notes after a visit to our house. Now that would never happen at Cornell...