Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual payload that he was carrying. Back in his plane's cargo compartment, attired in green Army fatigues, 45 Americans-businessmen and journalists-slumped wearily in bucket seats after a fact-finding trip into Viet Nam's war-riddled countryside. For all hands, the visit to Viet Nam was the focal point of TIME'S current News Tour of Asia...
...first leg of the 10,500-mile journey ended at Brussels International Airport, where Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Belgium since Woodrow Wilson arrived triumphantly in 1919 after negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. The President was met by Belgium's young King Baudouin, who led him down a 200-yd. red carpet to review a guard of honor. Nixon greeted NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio among the potted palms and pink azaleas of the royal tent, and then, with the King at his side, drove to the Palais Royale de Bruxelles...
...eleven hours of discussions, characterized by what a British spokesman called "plain dealing," Nixon and Wilson reviewed the problems facing the two nations-with special attention to the necessity of avoiding further challenges to the dollar and the pound. During his visit, Nixon also met with Conservative Leader Edward Heath and Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe, received former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is an old friend from the Eisenhower days, and sat with groups of businessmen, labor and youth leaders, educators and editors. The British are tough judges, but they were taken with their visitor. Said one official who talked...
...always wanted to visit San Francisco, you'd better go over Spring Break: you may never get another chance -- at least not until you're fat, rich, and too old to enjoy...
Embarrassed Silence. One of the hardest to convince was Wernher von Braun. But when he was finally converted to the lunar-orbit-rendezvous technique, he became a formidable advocate. During a visit to Huntsville, President Kennedy stood in embarrassed silence while Von Braun argued heatedly with Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner, the last important holdout against LOR. Pressed for a final decision, Kennedy overruled Wiesner in October 1962 and gave NASA permission to proceed with the design and construction of a lunar module...