Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pond. On October 26, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker--along with President Lowell and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge--watched ROTC work in the muddy Fresh Pond trenches and found high praise for what he saw. Forty-nine years later, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara paid a brief visit to Harvard and went away less favorably impressed...
...exhibit. It is a bit facile, picking out the best known artists, in their most recognizable attire. The hand of the French public relations man, embracing the creative world under the tricolor makes us wonder if he doesn't want us to like him a little better, or visit his country a little sooner. But bribe or no bribe, reunions are not known for soul-searing communications...
Despite the intensified fighting. General William Westmoreland, who will yield his command of U.S. forces in Viet Nam next month to become Army Chief of Staff, offered a characteristically optimistic assessment of the war during a visit to the L.B.J. Ranch. The enemy "seems to be approaching a point of desecration," he told the President, and his forces "are deteriorating in strength and quality." Though hard fighting looms in northernmost I Corps, the Central Highlands and around Saigon, added Westy, "time is on our side." That, clearly, is what Hanoi believes-about its side...
Unlike their body-lice cousins, they are not known as carriers of any disease. But they cause such a maddening itch that anyone harboring them is invariably driven to a pharmacist or a doctor, no matter how embarrassing the visit may be. A simple cure, says Dermatologist Ackerman, is to apply a 1% solution of gamma-benzene hexachloride, either as a cream, lotion or shampoo, to the troubled area. Nevertheless, since the presence of Phthirus pubis is usually the result of sexual contact, he urges all physicians who come upon such scratching patients to examine them for gonorrhea and syphilis...
Apart from horse-trading between governments, Abu-Haidar hopes that Pan Am might also have a sentimental reason for agreeing to U.S. landing rights for Trans-Med. Four years ago, Susan Leslie, daughter of a Pan Am vice president, met Abu-Haidar during a visit to Beirut. Friendship blossomed. She was even more impressed on a safari to Kenya; Abu-Haidar, on crutches from a skiing accident, nevertheless managed to bring down a rhino. They were married in Scarsdale, N.Y., now live in Beirut with their two children...