Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes, however, he is involved against his will. Two years ago, while asking permission to visit a SNCC field worker who had been badly beaten by a prison trusty, King himself was viciously caned by the county sheriff, the same one who had harassed him in court. Unlike King, the sheriff had no trouble reconciling King's roles as lawyer and Negro--he just ignored the former. "Yeah, I knocked hell out of him," he told a reporter later, "and I'll do it again. I'm a white man and he's a damn nigger...
After hearing Milton Friedman tell how the daily newspaper at the University of California had refused even to publish an announcement of his recent visit there, we were delighted to find the CRIMSON featuring an article on his appearance at Harvard last week...
...Before Governor Wallace's visit to Indiana University, reports came that one of his favorite devices was to stand before the audience, wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...
...dessert time at the banquet marking Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's ceremonial visit to the Hanover Fair. Suddenly a Nachtisch of grim-faced police appeared. To the astonishment of the crowd, they arrested and marched away Fritz-Aurel Goergen, the president of the vast Henschel Works, whose $125 million in annual sales cover locomotives, trucks and heavy machinery. Before the week was out, two other Henschel executives had been arrested, and four had had their homes and offices searched. Germany was faced with what may be its biggest postwar business scandal, which quickly began making bold headlines and even bolder...
Most of the play is the fitful dream of Tom, a youth returning from a visit with his gandfather. On the train ride home the grandfather reviews his life, realizing that he is "trapped inside myself." Almost horribly his memories are "forever and never [to] be anything else, they could not change, they were--what?--ugliness...