Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said the President: "I should like to end this visit with a word on Viet Nam. Our purpose, our objective there, is clear: to join in the defense and protection of freedom of a brave people who are under attack that is controlled and that is directed from outside their country. We have no ambition there for ourselves. We seek no dominion. We seek no conquest. We seek no wider war. But we must all understand that we will persist in the defense of freedom, and our continuing actions will be those which are justified and those that are made...
...TANZANIA, President Julius Nyerere, just before taking off for a state visit to Peking, got into the spirit by recalling the Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.S. Reason: the U.S. had asked for the recall of a Tanzanian attache from Washington in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats by Tanzania on patently ridiculous charges (TIME, Feb. 5). "We are a small country, but we are as much sovereign as the U.S.," explained Nyerere in martyred tones. "We do not bully and we do not like being bullied...
...experience of heartbreaking failures. Their first five shots fizzled. The sixth was on target, but its TV cameras failed to function. Ranger VII did everything right; its radioed photographs may have told little to amateurs, but they made professionals more familiar than ever with the planet they plan to visit. Then came Ranger VIII, and man got his clearest look yet at his closest planetary neighbor...
...Peace Corps reported this week that its recruiting drive at Harvard has produced about 20 per cent fewer applicants than did last year's drive. A total of 97 seniors and juniors took the Peace Corps Placement Test and submitted Volunteer Questionnaires during the Corps' one-week visit to Phillips Brooks House, while 125 did the last year...
According to William Delano, who all the drive, the decrease in volunteers hay be attributed to a substantial degree of self-selection. "The people who signed up this year seemed really serious about it," he remarked at the conclusion of his visit...