Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winding up his 15-day state visit to Yugoslavia last week, Nikita Khrushchev found himself playing an unusual role-that of listener. Evidently he hoped to offset the Russian split with Red China by getting closer to Tito, with whom relations ever since 1955 have alternated between fairly warm and fairly chilly. Khrushchev not only swallowed Tito's determination to maintain his status as a Communist "independent," but in a four-day session at the island retreat of Brioni patiently listened to his host's advice on how to outbid the Chinese in the struggle for the leadership...
...most instructive part of the visit came at the Rakovica auto plant out side Belgrade. In a discussion with the workers, Khrushchev seemed fascinated by the Yugoslav factory system of decentralized, locally administered socialism through workers' councils elected by the employees and empowered to fire or reverse the decisions of the plant manager. The system has long been denounced by Red Chinese ideologues, and by Russia since Yugoslavia was kicked out of the Comintern...
...Daya Mata. Daya Mata joined the sect in Salt Lake City at the age of 17, after Yogananda cured her of a blood disease that had forced her to leave high school. This week she is going to set out on a journey to India for a half-year visit with members of Yogoda Sat-Sanga, an Indian organization founded by Yogananda...
...July, just two days short of Willard R. Gilliland's 39th birthday, when he left his home in Peters Township, south of Pittsburgh, to take his mother-in-law, his wife June and their five children to visit his mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short...
...Youlou raised taxes. Basic food prices doubled, and as bush people kept streaming into crowded Brazzaville, 19 out of every 20 Africans in the city were without work. Then Youlou made his worst mistake-he asked Guinea's demagogic, leftish President Sékou Touré for a visit. Instead of uttering niceties, the guest electrified the locals with denunciations of African leaders who turn wealthy bourgeois...