Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VISIT to a bad show doesn't have to be a total loss. For one thing, you can learn the difference between a flop and a failure. A flop, in the words Walter Kerr used a few years back to describe a fiasco called Kelly, is "a bad idea gone wrong." Such a show, through its total ineptitude, can often be very funny. (A knowledgeable friend of mine who saw Kelly's one and only Broadway performance counts it among the most hilarious evenings he's ever spent in a theatre.) A failure, on the other hand, is a good...
...tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years ago by Chile's President Eduardo Frei. Unofficially, there are high hopes that...
...which my views and my proposals are misrepresented. Your reporter writes that I suggested that parietals should be eliminated. I am not, and never have been, in favor of removing all restrictions. My proposal is to replace the present system of specifying the hours during which women guests may visit students in the Houses by the following rule: "The rooms in the Yard and the Houses are provided to accommodate the students to whom they are assigned. Other overnight occupancy of such room is forbidden." Bruce Chalmers Master of Winthrop House
...said he would attend a meeting of the Economics Club in New York next week, but has no plans to go to Washington or meet President Johnson, because "I'm on a completely private visit...
...railroad had just pushed across Michigan when a young New Jerseyan named Ralph Lane Polk arrived in Detroit to seek his fortune peddling various patent medicines. He found that the Iron Horse, steaming along at speeds of 40 m.p.h., had changed the world of traveling salesmen, enabling them to visit merchants in several towns in one day. Polk compiled a Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots. The R. L. Polk company has been in business ever since. It branched out into publishing city directories (which were originally intended...