Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suggested, in talks with Dulles about his Independence Day visit with France's Charles de Gaulle (see FOREIGN NEWS), that the U.S. could soothe French hurts over U.S. reluctance to give France basic atomic secrets by offering France an atomic-submarine engine...
...fear that the other will become either too strong-or too weak. For the past five months London has been eying Paris with especial nervousness. As senior man in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had every right to expect that new Premier de Gaulle should make the first visit to him in London. Instead, last week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General de Gaulle, who rarely leaves his own office when he is in Paris, drove out to the airport in his shiny new Citroën DS 19 to greet...
Next afternoon, with Nasser at his side, the Yugoslav leader told 50,000 cheering old partisans gathered on the Sutjeska battlefield: "No one can break us." Nasser himself, by visiting Tito at this point, was making the most audacious affront to the Soviets he had ever risked. According to Cairo scuttlebutt, Nasser returned from his recent 17-day state visit to Russia bored by too many banquets and somewhat unimpressed. He also came home with no more Russian rubles, though reportedly the kind of Russian help he likes most-complete diplomatic backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble...
...successfully taken the legitimate stage into his domain with his comedy Visit to a Small Planet, which recently finished a run of almost 400 performances on Broadway. Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of its dialogue. Vidal avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and bespeak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
...Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...