Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever had a chance to visit the Union before and, although you can't become an authority on a country in a week, we left with the feeling that we had been among our own kind of people-a people whose hopes, desires and way of living pretty well checked with ours. Like the U.S., South Africa is a country of great horizons, plains and mountains, of vigorous individualism, immense potentialities, and many unsolved problems...
...Late. Telling testimony came from Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop...
Americans who go abroad will "acquire a background which will enable them better to understand the problems which now face the countries they visit...
Veritas Films is looking for some older-looking Radcliffe and Harvard students who are interested in acting. Other candidates for positions in directing, writing, and filming are also invited to visit the company's new offices on Sever's top floor between 9 and 2 o'clock...
Departed: Hon. Michael Astor, little-noted 31-year-old son of much-quoted chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...