Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groaned that his force would "be taxed to an extent they have never been taxed before," deployed 18,000 of his 26,000 men to cover every inch of the Pope's 24.7-mile route into the city from Kennedy Airport, as well as each point he would visit. Overtime pay for the cops was estimated...
...equipped with a battery-powered public-address system, a papal seat that could be raised seven inches, fluorescent lamps to illuminate the Pope, and a bubble-top covering (non-bulletproof) in case of rain. More than 75 television cameras and 500 personnel were assigned to give the visit the most intensive TV exposure ever concentrated on a single event. The three major networks swallowed hard and promised not to interrupt their coverage with commercials, a sacrifice of some $3,000,000 in revenue...
When revolt struck Djakarta last week, it seemed appropriate that President Sukarno was in the company of a lovely woman. He was with Morning Star, his most recent wife, a 26-year-old former Japanese bar hostess. Sukarno had left Merdeka Palace to visit her brown-walled bungalow for dinner beneath dozens of Indonesian statues. As the meal ended, word came of a military uprising in the city. Dismissing his motorcade, Sukarno summoned a helicopter and was lifted up into the night sky-and for four days, the flamboyant, hard-living leader of a nation of 104 million...
Disaster, Disaster. Wagons-Lits feels the need of diversification more strongly than most companies: it has proved particularly vulnerable to wars, expropriations, deflations and other disasters. Founded in 1876 by a Belgian engineer who had admired the pioneering Pullman cars on a visit to the U.S., Wagons-Lits introduced sleeping and dining cars to Europe, devised Europe's first truly through-train railroad system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World...
...parked the car at the Church. The rector had not been there, so we had strolled a block or two to the office of an attorney whom he had met at St. Paul's and encountered several times since. This time our visit was more cordial. We had given him and his wife a copy of "My people is the Earth" for Easter, and I think they were deeply touched. This time he was less suspicious, less defensive, less insistent that we get the hell out of town." We had talked this time of the Gospel, of what a white...