Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...
...senses and make them cruel. Such a theme wound its way through Borges' earlier, labyrinthine short stories. His present pieces are simpler and gloomier. They are filled with a sense of death, of inexorably passing time. But there is always relief in an image, as in a visit to an old coach house where everything is in decay...
...lobbyists will then visit 35 Senators whose positions on the civil rights bill are considered "equivocal" and present them with petitions. The legislators who will be approached include Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), Everett Dirksen (R-III.), Frank Lausche (D-Ohio), Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), Karl Mundt (R-S. Da.), and John Tower (R-Texas...
Before World War II, an American setting off on a trip to Chile could count on a three-week voyage by boat down South America's west coast. Today, Panagra's jets make it from New York to the Santiago capital in 14 hours, but few Americans visit Chile. Yet in this faraway land of nitrates, copper and wine, the most important election in Latin America this year will take place on Sept. 4. There is a real possibility that Chile, long democratic, will become the first nation in the hemisphere to choose an avowed Marxist...
Pensions & Pesticides. Another curious Du Pont was Alfred I, who was too busy running the company (in the early 1920s) to visit his children after he divorced his wife. After 14 years he was surprised to learn that his daughter had sat across the aisle from him on a train some years before; he had not recognized her. In the days before social security, Alfred pioneered in the field of old-age pensions, spent $350,000 of his own money in pension checks for Delaware's needy. His cousin and archenemy Pierre shelled...