Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pray that the American in the street puts his prejudices in the closet for a few days and treats Mr. Khrushchev as an honored guest. Mr. Nixon seems to have been treated very well during his visit. Let's repay with our best manners...
...TIME commissioned famed Realist Andrew Wyeth to paint the President, both artist and subject hesitated momentarily. Wyeth, a deliberate and profoundly emotional artist, was naturally a bit overawed by the assignment. The President, for his part, was relaxing at Gettysburg, gathering his forces for his momentous and precedent-shattering visit to Europe. But TIME and mutual admiration brought the two together to create an important addition to the picture gallery of American history...
...staff of the Moscow patriarchate's foreign affairs department, and dark, beaky Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't' Hooft: "The Russian Church is at the moment in the process of discovering the World Council. If all goes well, it will mean that our relations will develop with churches in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia...
...point, he is in an elaborate casino which illustrates the sordid side of man's instinct for gain; again, he and his fellow travelers find themselves in a terrifying place where there are only the skeletons of women, but walking skeletons who are taken sexually by visiting soldiers. The travelers visit many lands of the mind and spirit, but never do they find their souls...
...galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader jeeps off to visit a nearby physicist, leaving his crew to work on. As they dig deeper, the dinosaur tracks deepen as if the beast had been running. Farther on, sunk in the rock that ages ago was mud, they uncover the unmistakable spoor of a Jeep. Guess what the monster ate for dinner...