Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither Nehru nor Finance Minister Krishnamachari has been willing to scrap or revamp the second five-year plan. Last week Krishnamachari announced that he would make a visit to the U.S. next month. Nothing drastic would be done about the plan until he had tried his luck in Washington...
...small economic friction as last month's unloading of low-priced U.S. turkeys onto the Ontario market. Dulles' talk with Diefenbaker is only the first that the Prime Minister will want to have with U.S. officialdom. The opening moves are under way for the Prime Minister to visit President Eisenhower later this year...
...water. Saudi Arabia, richer in oil, is water poor. Last week Saudi Arabia announced that its old rival, the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, has granted it permission to tap the Iraqi river Euphrates for drinking water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges...
...thank for their victory was none other than President Sukarno himself. Indonesia's national hero and the father of his country, Sukarno has never in his life stood for elective office. He was much impressed by the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Dwight Eisenhower on his U.S. visit last year, but as a grade-school kind of Marxist he found his visit to Red China a few months later much more instructive...
...millions of dollars. Then he ordered his royal artists and carpenters to build a whimsical wonderland of spaceships to the moon and Mark Twain river boats, of mechanical monkeys and bobbing hippos, of moated castles, wilderness forts and make-believe jungles. All the children, young and old, came to visit this happy place, called Disneyland. And Walt and his friends made millions happily ever after...