Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to draw a response from intransigent North Viet Nam. Britain's Commonwealth peace mission has not got very far either. Last week, after pondering Hanoi's rebuff of the mission, Harold Wilson gamely sent a low-level British official off to Hanoi on a "private" visit, apparently hoping to get Ho to change his mind. Few held out hope that Ho would...
...addition to the SAMs, the Russians have provided a lot of verbal bluster, but total Russian aid to North Viet Nam has been only $365 million (mostly in food-processing plants, electric-power development, mining and chemical equipment). Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi last February was aimed at re-establishing Russian influence in Southeast Asia, but with the intensification of the war, Russia has lost much of its enthusiasm. Peking is still the big spender, having provided $650 million in economic aid. Though Ho at first responded to the Chinese largesse by mimicking Mao with Orwellian...
Peyrefitte also goes through some tortuous onomastics to "prove" that dozens of famous people have Jewish ancestors. De Gaulle, for example, remarked during a visit to Germany in 1962 that he had a great-great-grandfather named Kolb. Indeed, there are three Kolbs listed in Who's Who in World Jewry. Voil...
Airman First Class Marvin L. Jones, 21, stationed at the Ramstein, U.S.A.F. base in West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...
...have some obligations to myself too." Now it's official: Barbara and Bob will be married by Francis Cardinal Spellman on July 26 in a private chapel in the cardinal's residence. Barbara, some friends report, feels that New York City is a great place to visit and all that, but would like to live elsewhere. The newest buzz is that Bob may oblige his bride by running for Governor Nelson Rockefeller's house in Albany next year...