Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CASALS AT 88 (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Rebroadcast of a memorable visit with the great cellist...
...Johnson conceded, the immediate purpose of his visit dealt with the South. The founding fathers, he recalled, believed that "the most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders." Yet, he said, "the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes. Every device of which human ingenuity is capable has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong, or the hour is late. And even a college degree...
...words and short on deeds. Hardly had Egypt's leader spoken than Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba made it clear that his country would not go along with extreme measures against the West Germans. And Morocco's King Hassan II, in Cairo for a state visit, did not even mention the German problem in his speech at an official dinner. Fact was, all the Arab states were probably willing to withdraw their ambassadors from Bonn, but many were reluctant to go much farther. Only the extremist bloc of Egypt, Yemen and Iraq, possibly joined by Syria...
...last week, as Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, lay shrouded in bandages after three operations for a detached retina of the eye, the glacial attitude of the royal family at last was softening. Queen Elizabeth graciously let it be known that she would visit her uncle as soon as his condition would permit. And she would not only take note that the duchess existed, but would extend her the royal hand in friendship...
...when donors' private collections were hung in toto is past; the Met insists on constantly upgrading as finer examples become available. Also past are the days when objects were crammed together in unlighted Victorian display cases. To catch the eye of the young (1,000 schoolchildren a day visit the Met by appointment), the museum inaugurated one of the first children's museums in the U.S., with spinning color charts, and a movie of unwrapping a mummy that fascinates even adults...