Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub would like nothing better than to pick up the mantle of leadership in nonaligned Asia, which has been unclaimed since India's lawaharlal Nehru died. His Peking visit-in addition to gaining further Chinese support against India-was aimed at building that image. And in the next few weeks, the would-be "honest broker" hopes to boost it further: on the Ayub agenda are trips to Moscow and Washington...
Last week the Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little...
...steeply terraced hillsides, chewing gummy wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua, the language of their Inca ancestors. After a visit to Hualcan, a U.S. anthropologist reported that the Indians at first thought him an evil spirit come to steal the fat from their bones...
...winter, and in spring helps make maple syrup with the other children. It sounds remote from Hollywood and the Riviera, but it isn't, really, because "Yassy" is Princess Yasmin, 15, daughter of the late Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 46, whom she flew down to visit in Manhattan last week. Rita had just finished making The Money Trap for MGM, and seemed almost relieved to report that Yasmin hasn't yet shown any interest in acting. "She came to visit me in Madrid last winter when I was making Circus World, and when...
...medical data with the aid of his personal physician. This information will not only help the overseas doctor but will guard against the patient's getting a shot of a medicine to which he is allergic. The foreign doctors have agreed to a fee schedule for initial visits: not more than $8 for an office visit, $10 for a hotel call, and $15 for an emergency night call...