Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week visit last week came Her Majesty Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes. Washington officialdom knew what to expect from the vivacious, curly-haired Queen; she had already made herself a big hit on her first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look...
Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
...round of international politicking. He talked long with U.S. Columnist Walter Lippmann, told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each other in two world wars, and in them more than a million Britons had died...
...eyes of British officialdom, Heuss brought off his four-day official visit with tact, taste and humor. Said Heuss himself, when someone tried to compliment him on the sparse cheers he received: "Don't be ridiculous. Eighty percent were cheering for the Queen. 10% were cheering the horses, and 10% were cheering me-but they were Germans...