Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest living hero. Not until early last month did Khrushchev feel ready to make his move. Then, with all the fanfare due Zhukov's rank as Defense Minister and a member of the Presidium that rules the Communist Party, the unsuspecting marshal was shipped off on a state visit to Yugoslavia-a trip that was scheduled to last two weeks but was suddenly extended to three when Zhukov unexpectedly got orders to proceed from Yugoslavia to Albania...
...crowds cheered hoarsely as a majestically robed figure on a white horse rode past to receive their homage. From housetops and behind latticed windows, veiled women shrilled their "ayee, ayee" of adulation. The man on horseback was His Majesty Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, and the purpose of his visit that hot, sunny April day in 1947 was to give sustenance to a dream that has since become reality: freedom and independence for his country...
When at last the French were forced to bring the family back from exile, Aisha's return was celebrated with almost as much jubilation as that of the Sultan himself. As a shrewd and progressive monarch, her father (who will visit the U.S. later this month) had planned Aisha's role from the start as a complement to his ,own political struggle. The Sultan placed his children's education in the hands of capable private French teachers. "I want you to treat my children like other children," the Sultan said. "Call the girls by their title...
...Visit with Pablo Casals. A great cellist fills the screen with the tranquil luminosity of a mature art (TIME...
...visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the family had settled, the late great Pianist Josef Hofmann granted the four-year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...