Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronaut John Glenn, 44, was showing up everywhere in Hamburg, Germany-on eggs, on a banana, on two Fräuleins' foreheads. In town with his wife Annie on a West German good-will tour, Glenn discovered that the daily Bild-Zeitung was juicing up the visit with a contest. WHO WILL GET THE MOST UNUSUAL GLENN AUTOGRAPH? the newspaper bannered, and all day John signed...
...more typical of his personality was the calm, winning grace with which he carried through the exhausting ritual of his visit-and with which he happily departed from protocol when the spirit moved him. There was visible friendship and affection in the two-handed gesture with which he saluted crowds, in the avuncular kiss with which he rewarded a child...
...that included seven cardinals, a dozen other papal aides, and 60 newsmen and photographers, boarded a chartered Alitalia DC-8 at Rome's Fiumi-cmo Airport. On the nine-hour flight Paul slept only a little, played the considerate host. He left his isolated forward cabin twice to visit the newsmen, handed out commemorative medals,' amiably posed for pictures and answered some questions. "I know you are a bad air traveler and prefer to go by sea," he reminded Australia's aging Norman Cardinal Gilroy. Replied His Eminence gamely: "Traveling with you this way is different...
...Texan could stick to schedule-so the two men, assisted by two interpreters, talked on for 46 minutes about Viet Nam, India, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, the conquest of hunger. Paul praised recent U.S. efforts to advance the cause of civil rights. Johnson thought that the Pope's visit would provide a much needed stimulant to the prestige and power of the U.N. "It has been to me a very inspiring conversation," said the President, who gave the Pope a small vermeil globe as a memento. Paul, who distributed gifts every where he went, gave Johnson a contemporary painting...
...climax of Paul's visit was yet to come. That night he celebrated Mass before more than 90,000 people in Yankee Stadium-an occasion that turned the old arena, one Catholic noted, into "the home of Mantle, Maris and Montini." Instead of a solemn pontifical Mass, Paul chose to recite a simple Low Mass, to which the congregation responded rousingly in English. In keeping with the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council, lessons were read by laymen, and twelve children-the only ones to receive Communion from the Pope that day-brought the bread and wine...