Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the threat of a proposed travel tax, more than a million Americans have applied for passports to go abroad this year. Those bound for summertime Europe will find a melodious welcome just about anyplace they decide to visit. Some selected samples...
Flying into rain-soaked Manhattan, the President made a calculated surprise visit to address the U.N. General Assembly, whose members had just voted, 95 to 4, to endorse the nuclear nonproliferation pact. When it is signed by the U.S., Russia, Britain and 40 non-nuclear countries, the treaty will prohibit traffic in nuclear arms and war materiel between the atomic haves and havenots, and at the same time encourage the spread of peaceful know-how and materials. Although two atomically armed nations-France and Red China-will not sign the treaty, and such nations as India, Israel and West Germany...
...curators are eager to prove that it does have a role to play in the blighted areas of their cities. They are all too aware that museums on Sundays are filled almost exclusively with affluent whites; although black and Spanish-speaking schoolchildren may be guided through for a fleeting visit by their teachers, few return with their parents, and still fewer poor adults come in alone. To open their eyes, white administrators are now taking art to the ghettos with branch museums or art-mobiles. Often, they find whole streets in Harlem covered with murals by amateurs. Near...
RAVINIA FESTIVAL, Chicago, the summer abode of the city's symphony, is supervised by Conductor Seiji Ozawa. The long season (June 27 through Sept. 15) is made up of orchestral and chamber concerts, a short visit by the New York City Ballet, Daniel Barenboim's English Chamber Orchestra, a jazz-folk program and a wide selection of guest artists, including Pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher, Alexis Weissenberg and others of that caliber...
...real estate men as it is with house hunters. A few weeks ago, a $15,500 ranch-style home became available in the Detroit area on a Saturday morning. Even though it was not officially listed, indexed, and publicized, eleven people learned of it through Realtron and came to visit it. By that afternoon, the house was sold to one of them. Says E. Gordon Sinclair, president of Evergreen Realty: "Normally, we wouldn't have had that house on the market for five days...