Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, were exactly memorable. "I'm trying to graduate from college myself this fall," Nixon would tell college audiences. "The Electoral College." A few were execrable. "It's one thing to give 'em hell," he said after Hubert Humphrey had made a well-publicized visit to Harry Truman. "It's another to give them Hubert." A new paperback, The Wit & Humor of Richard Nixon is necessarily brief (128 pages), has more than the usual amount of white space and includes Nixon's entire acceptance speech at Miami Beach, which contained not a scintilla...
Strolling on London's Strand, Charlie Chaplin, 79, and Wife Oona, 43, were on a fleeting visit from Switzerland to do some shopping and see a few shows...
...watching-dancing from the beams on which so many people had stretched out. Before I left Cambridge, I had been told, "If you speak with someone at Antioch for five minutes, it is assumed you will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast, and he told me that it was in this house in "the glen" that most of the T-groups were held. Memories must have been rampant, since almost...
...pleasure seekers, Morocco has become one of the newest and chicest holiday havens. Tourism was all but nonexistent ten years ago; today it is Morocco's second biggest (after agriculture) and fastest growing industry. During 1969, 650,000 foreign tourists, 50,000 of them Americans, are expected to visit what Moroccans call the "Fortunate Kingdom." Many will come in the summer, when the sun is fiercer. But the big boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk at Marrakesh's Mamounia Hotel boasted...
Nongastronomic tourists may settle for sightseeing: hiring a car and guide (average rate: $25 a day) to visit the ancient walled city of Taroudant with its elegant Moorish Dar Baroud Palace, or crossing over the Tizi n'Tichka pass, a three-hour drive from Marrakesh, into the picturesque "casbah country" with its fortified villages built of clay that melts like chocolate in a heavy rain. Or they may spend the day shopping in the souks of Fez or Marrakesh, haggling for bargains in brightly patterned Moroccan rugs, ornate silver jewelry or silk brocade caftans-the flowing, T-shaped garment...