Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous 4½-day dash around the world in 1967. Sidey was with Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna; he stood below as Kennedy shouted "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. And he went along on the young President's visit to the old family sod in Ireland...
TIME'S coverage of Nixon's first trip as President had to be plotted with equal care. Senior Correspondent John Steele traveled the presidential route as a journalistic advance man, reporting on the mood of the various capitals that Nixon will visit. Across Europe, TIME bureau chiefs scheduled interviews with diplomats, financial experts and military men to bolster their own observations and put together thorough reports on the problems that the new U.S. President is likely to face. From Washington to Rome, TIME correspondents cabled files...
Then there was Berlin, where East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was once again applying the squeeze. Though it was unlikely that the Russians would ruin their chance for a new Soviet-American understanding by allowing Berlin to reach crisis proportions during Nixon's visit, the very fact that the divided city was again an issue was a sobering reminder that Russia and the U.S. still have to remove major roadblocks to any overall understanding. Similarly, the threatened maneuvers of Russian troops in East Germany and Ulbricht's interference with traffic to and from Berlin recalled the Communist might and will...
Next morning, he was to visit NATO's prefabricated new headquarters. There he planned a brief speech to the ambassadors from the 15 NATO member nations. Afterward, he was to hold private conferences on the state of the alliance with NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio and various NATO ambassadors. Before the invasion of Czechoslovakia, some NATO experts regarded the original raison d'être of the alliance as outmoded and hoped to transform it from a military deterrent into a means of relaxing East-West political tensions. Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, who is accompanying Nixon, has never believed that NATO...
...last saw Gayle a few weeks ago; and I know that I won't be writing her any more letters this year. And when I go home again it will be a visit--not a homecoming. She probably still feels the same curiosity for me--and may even glance now and then at the photograph of children in the North End that I gave her at Christmas. I know now that she will always think the picture is pleasant and she'll never find a meaning in it that would make her uncomfortable...