Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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East Germany's Walter Ulbricht has long tried to make his miserable "German Democratic Republic" seem important. With Nikita Khrushchev's approaching visit to Bonn, he is also plainly under Moscow's orders to make it look more respectable and humane. In both respects, he again failed wretchedly...
...British domination. An impatient generation of French Canadians demands more autonomy and a stronger voice in the country's affairs. Some even preach outright secession from English Canada; the more passionate have been punctuating their cries with mailbox bombings, arms raids and threats against the Queen's visit-even her life...
...approached Quebec last week, ominous letters and telephone calls poured into newspapers. Police seized 14,000 "hate" pamphlets ("First-class funeral for Confederation-the Queen's visit"). And in downtown Quebec City the night before her arrival 1,000 members of the separatist Le Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale staged a silent protest march until police broke it up. "This is an example of the democracy we live in," snarled Separatist Leader Pierre Bourgault. Officials were haunted by thoughts of the assassination of President Kennedy...
...representative of Keating Headquarters in New York, Michael S. Kramer, will visit Cambridge tomorrow to check on the Club's progress and deliver campaign literature, buttons, and posters...
Sadder still, The Visit suffers from heroic miscasting. As the implacable billionairess and her victim, Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn work hard and seriously but to little purpose...