Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living Reminder. In the U.S. last week for a five-day visit was a living reminder of America's stake in Europe: West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Erhard did not come to complain. But in stating the reason for his trip, he did note that "urgent decisions that are vital for the future of the Atlantic Alliance need to be discussed...
...factor that gives NATO a remaining degree of reality. Yet much of the West still expects the uniforms of its German allies to be made of sackcloth. Erhard may be an honored guest in the U.S., as he is this week; the British may graciously send their Queen to visit, or the French artfully try to woo Bonn away from the American alliance-but the Germans still feel unloved. "Joyous bonfires burn in the night sky all around Germany as her former enemies celebrate their victory of 20 years ago," noted Theologian Helmut Thielicke during last month...
...most engaging new celebrity in Washington last week was a 320-year-old boy dressed in a grey-brown tunic and a plumed velvet hat. In a chastely simple lobby of the National Gallery of Art, where the Mona Lisa hung last year on its visit to the U.S., Rembrandt's delicate 251 inch by 22 inch portrait of his son Titus was unveiled for a six-week-long stay before moving on to its permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after...
...shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail of operations. When he has finally made up his mind about a company, the hot line...
Loaded with Evidence. They paid four midnight visits to the neo-Nazis' secret headquarters in downtown Stockholm. Working by flashlight, they photo graphed documents, photos, anti-Semitic tracts, Nazi flags, busts of Hitler, small arms. On one visit they were startled by what sounded like a footstep. They bolted for the piano in the office, started banging out the Nazi Horst Wessel song and singing lustily. But the noise turned out to be the minute hand of a big clock, which had stuck momentarily, then was released with a thump...