Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall. All this was in prelude to the deeply dramatic visit to West Berlin. There the Kennedy motorcade beat its way for four hours along 35 miles of milling humanity. Women broke through the barricades, children grabbed for the President's coat, people threw torrents of flowers. But Kennedy was grim as he approached the Wall. The East Germans had deliberately stretched three huge flags across the Brandenburg Gate so that the view was obscured...
Beckwith's paternal grandfather helped develop Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento, where he served as the first postmaster. Beckwith's mother, one of Greenwood's prettiest, most popular girls, went to California to visit an aunt, married Beckwith's father, a real estate agent. "Delay" Beckwith was born in California...
...real reason for Khrushchev's presence in East Berlin, of course, was not that he wanted to help Ulbricht blow out the candles, nor was it entirely a matter of trying to counteract the emotions stirred up by the Kennedy visit. Most of all, Khrushchev wanted to meet with his East European satellite chiefs to close ranks before the Chinese arrive in Moscow this week to confer on the worsening Sino-Soviet ideological split...
Died. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, 89, prim executive housekeeper at the White House from 1933 to 1946, who handled such oversized housewifely problems as bedtime hot-water bottles requested by the British royal family during a 1939 summer visit, and frightening morning memos from Mrs. F.D.R. ("Mrs. Nesbitt: There will be 5,000 to tea"), then chronicled it all in the bestselling White House Diary and The Presidential Cookbook; after a long illness; in Bethesda...
...says on this subject, he goes on dropping clues in an ever-lengthening paper chase which seems to lead straight through the potting shed into a paradoxical garden where loss of faith is somehow proof of God's existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene a razor's edge closer to despair than did A Burnt-Out Case...