Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan got a three-month diplomatic visa from the U.S. embassy in Moscow, got ready to hit Washington some time next week for a two-week visit. Presumed intention: to feel out the firmness of U.S. policy on West Berlin and to explore a possible deal for all of Germany, perhaps on the basis of Communist or neutralist disengagement schemes...
...India staged such a gaudy welcome. At the New Delhi airport last week, crowds surged forward and nearly smothered their guest from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
...Moscow last week came one request that the U.S. promptly granted. Through U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, the Russians asked for a diplomatic visa permitting Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan to visit the U.S. for a fortnight or so early next month. One of three members of the old Stalin gang (the others: Premier Khrushchev, President Voroshilov) still surviving in the top ranks of the Soviet hierarchy, wily Armenian Mikoyan, 63, will officially be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but Mikoyan's obvious purpose in making the trip is to talk...
...Control of the Ruble." But the real burden of Khrushchev's 38,000-word message is that Soviet collective farmers must improve their efficiency if the new plan is to be fulfilled. Khrushchev's touring experts had been shocked during their 1955 visit to Iowa to see what huge crop yields a relatively small number of U.S. farmers could obtain. In farm productivity, said Khrushchev, "our country is still seriously lagging behind the U.S." He cited some revealing figures of the number of man-hours required in the two countries to grow 220 lbs. of produce...
...mutual confidence could be created. After exchanging platitudes for 90 minutes, Rountree left. Kassem's next visitor was the Soviet ambassador, who spent 45 minutes with the general in what was also described as "an atmosphere of friendship and cordiality" in Baghdad papers next day; on orders, each visit got equal space. Rountree left for Beirut that noon, a day early, after traveling to the airport in an unmarked...