Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Old Wrecker. For the long term, the West Germans feel that the only realistic guarantee for their security lies in a unified Western Europe. At week's end, German officials welcomed that old wrecker of European unity, Charles de Gaulle, to Bonn on his annual visit with somewhat mixed feelings. On the eve of the French President's arrival, Brandt issued a public statement that had an unmistakable meaning for the French. "I would be sorry for every step that we must take without France," said Brandt. "But no one could be satisfied if we stood still...
...occasion of their first visit to America, "Billy Graham said he'd broken his strict rule and watched television on the Sabbath just to see them. 'They're a passing phase,' he said. 'All are symptoms of the uncertaintly of the times and the confusion about us.' "Oddly prophetic on Graham's part, for the rock and roll army was just about to be born, and the Beatles (touring phase) were to be the midwives. A generation of kids was about to be turned on to their own youth, their beauty and their energy. And they were going to notice...
Gilbarg, who through a friend initially contacted Cleaver at the Peace and Freedom Party convention this summer, has been working with the Kennedy Institute on arrangements for the visit. In addition to Cleaver's legal tie-up on the West Coast, Gilbarg said, misunderstanding has arisen over the amount of his honorarium...
There is also some wild black humor, notably one episode that is a bitter comment on the outside world's long gullibility about Soviet Russia. Two prisoners invent a fantasy about a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to Moscow's Butyrki Prison, just after the war. Inmates are washed in "Lilac Fairy" soap, offered wigs to cover their shaved heads. Their cells are temporarily transformed into elegant salons with foreign magazines on their coffee tables. When Mrs. Roosevelt picks out at random a man and asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo...
...obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid a rushed visit to Sofia...