Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom had been in Iraq for more than 18 days on this visit: "You have been here long enough." As he packed up hurriedly for the trip back to his base in Beirut, McHale had a wry reaction to the inscription Kassem had written on his autographed photo. It read: "This is my gift to every noble newsman who battles for freedom...
Through it all, Philanthropist French has never seen the fruits of his dollars. But this week he leaves for a 100-day trip to India, where another of his mobile health units will be donated-and early next year he plans to go to visit Korea. Says he: "It's amazing how little it costs you to be generous. I don't believe the American people have any idea of how far $10 can go in a foreign country...
Late one afternoon last week, Gordon and Trannie Roberts, with their sons, were driving home from a visit to a home for handicapped children in a nearby town. Trannie was due on duty at her hospital in 90 minutes; there would not be time for a devotional at home. Gordon Roberts pulled off the highway, the family clasped hands and prayed-among other things, for a safe trip. When Gordon started up again, little Philip was still on his knees on the front floorboard, singing one of his favorite hymns...
...elaborate briefings, the British dropped proposals that-if they got a bad reaction-were described as only suggestions to "study." During his visit to Moscow, Macmillan apparently became convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is obsessed with fear that the U.S. intends to attack Russia at the first opportunity. Macmillan's conclusion: the way to cure Khrushchev of his obsession is for the West to make public admission-at least by implication-that Soviet mastery of Eastern Europe is a "fact of life" that the Western powers do not intend to try to change by force. For doing this, the West...
They made the mistake of letting the Dalai Lama visit India in 1956, where a free-spending six weeks made him aware of the outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown a captive's ability subtly to defy authority. The old saying is still true: "To hold Tibet firmly, the conqueror must win the Potala's top floor...