Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tabloid Daily Mirror nervously raised "the spectre of a second Dallas." Prime Minister Mike Pearson accurately described such talk as extravagant and extreme. Yet this week Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who can normally expect a warm welcome almost anywhere in the world, begins an eight-day visit to Canada - and no one can be sure of her reception...
...first visit as Queen in 1957, Britain's Elizabeth was lustily cheered. Now she is coming to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of Cana dian confederation, and there lies the trouble. In the last few years, the long-smoldering antagonism between English and French Canadians has erupted in bitter, open division. Centered in the province of Quebec, French Canadians are in revolt against what they regard as a century of British domination; they demand a stronger voice in federal affairs and greater provincial autonomy. A small but growing number wants to split Canada into separate nations...
Whether they do or not, the Cana dian government has laid on the most extensive security precautions in Canada's peacetime history. The Queen will visit only three cities: Charlottetown on English-speaking Prince Edward Is land, the Quebec capital of Quebec City, and the federal capital at Ottawa. As she sails up the St. Lawrence River aboard the royal yacht Britannia, frog men will check the hull for mines at every stop. During parades, she will ride in a closed, bulletproof limousine, and in Quebec City a fleet of armored riot-control trucks awaits...
...good many people who have the distinct impression that Julie Andrews' real name is Eliza Doolittle. Julie almost felt that way herself, after playing Eliza triumphantly for 31 years on Broadway and in London. So when she stopped in at her agent's offices on a visit to Hollywood last year, the first thing she brought up was a reminder that among the various film offers that might come her way, My Fair Lady took absolute precedence in her mind. The room was crowded and all heads turned toward her. "Don't you know...
...Visit is the kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...