Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election results were scarcely in before a rumor flew that Humphrey was about to be dispatched to Europe to mend NATO fences and to talk with Charles de Gaulle. Nothing has come of that. Next came a rumor that Humphrey would visit India and Pakistan and help patch up their differences...
...proposed offer grew out of consultations between PBH and Miles College students during a five-day visit of the southern students which ended yesterday...
Curiously enough, it was another intervening labor leader, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, who broke the deadlock. Apparently looking for a way out of the trap his own stubbornness had sprung, the pressmen's Frazee paid a clandestine visit to Reuther at the U.A.W.'s Solidarity House and humbly asked for help. "I'll make a compromise proposal," Reuther said, "but I won't argue." Within a day, both the papers and Frazee's pressmen accepted the terms...
...manhood. True to his principles he strove to give to Harvard as much as it game him. He was first a director of the Alumni Association and then an Overseer from 1957 to the year of his death. He held the chairmanships of our Board's committees to visit the Departments of Military, Naval and Air Science and the Department of Astronomy, and was also a member of the committees to visit the Department of Government and the Graduate School of Public Administration. Throughout his active public life he never lost touch with the University. It was natural...
...visit, Calder recalls, was "the necessary shock." The de Stijlist's studio, with its neat plane geometry of primary colors (which Calder henceforth stuck to) stilled the errant Yankee. "But how fine it would be," Calder thought, "if everything moved." He gave Mondrian wings. He balanced metal cutouts on wire arms, and in 1932, Duchamp dubbed them "mobiles." Almost as much as Mondrian's forms, the stiff nature of metal forced Calder toward abstraction...