Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They" were the Russians, and all the fuss was about the nine-day state visit of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin. To reciprocate the warmth of his reception in Moscow last June, De Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin...
...dialects-to the extent that a Southern European bee's "Honey, child!" might mean "Bitter, baby!" to his Scandinavian cousin. This and other levels of animal communication are explored by Dr. Loren Eiseley in "Messages." THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When the Honeymooners visit West Berlin, Ralph (Jackie Gleason) and Ed (Art Carney) wind up behind the Iron Curtain where they pose as Soviet dignitaries...
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A visit to "America's Jungle Wilderness-the Everglades" includes a stop at the Miami ''Serpentarium, where they engage in such ticklish tasks as extracting the venom from a 15-ft. king cobra...
Died. Sean O'Kelly, 84, President of the Republic of Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife "Look at this one, dear, isn't she grand?"; after a long illness; in Dublin...
When the author paid his first visit to the place in 1948, he knew only that the Scandinavians "were people in a northern world of dark days and bright nights who read a lot of books, enjoyed good plumbing and had some problems about love and laughter in a cold climate...