Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dotes on symbolism, the dates most often guessed were June 18, 1970, the 30th anniversary of his London broadcast urging French resistance, or his 80th birthday later that year. What prompted De Gaulle last week to stop playing coy was that another fox was suddenly being blunt. On a visit to Rome, former Gaullist Premier Georges Pompidou openly declared for the first time that he would be a candidate for President "if the presidency is one day vacant...
Benefit Appearance.Pompidoumean-while has begun acting like a campaigner. He and his ash-blonde wife Claude no longer vacation with the Côte d'Azur dolce vita set. Instead, they visit the staid Atlantic Coast or their country home at Cajarc in Lot, where Pompidou is photographed talking to the peasants. At the same time, he is subtly disengaging himself from unpopular De Gaulle positions. Though he agreed with the Israeli embargo, he did not like De Gaulle's innuendo that Jews unduly influenced the French press. Pompidou also believes, in light of Russian intransigence over Czechoslovakia...
Sophocles and the Colts. It was a scholarly critique of "TIME style" Wills mailed to Bill Buckley from Xavier University in 1957 that started his occasional assignments as a book reviewer for National Review. Buckley was so impressed that he invited Wills to visit him. "I expected some ancient, crusty professor-and in walked this child. It took me several gulps to think of him as having written this very authoritative piece...
...anniversary visit last week, TIME Correspondent John Blashill discovered that the village is becoming resigned to failure. But eyes flash when townsmen talk about the U.S. Air Force. They concede that the U.S., which promised to leave Palomares "just the way we found it," was generous with emergency payments for food, clothing and shelter. When 644 damage claims were later filed, they add, the Air Force and the Spanish government turned from Midas into pinchpenny...
...Western background and the influences of his journey to the Far East. This new collection contains four sections: those poems written before 1956, when he was working as a logger and forest ranger; those composed between 1956 and 1964 in Japan, where he studied Zen; those influenced by his visit to India; and those completed on his return to the U.S. In all, the mark is of the imagist poet concentrating on the pure intensity of the picture...