Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington prepared last week, with the help of a nine-member Chi nese advance delegation from Peking, for the arrival on Jan. 28 of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the first official visit to Washington by a Chinese Communist leader. The Teng summit posed more delicate problems for the White House than the spelling of names. The Chinese had requested the opportunity of meeting "old friends" in the U.S., including former President Nixon, whose own visit to China in 1972 paved the way for U.S.-Chinese diplomatic normalization. In fact, Teng wanted to stop off at Nixon...
...more of senior Faculty members in tutorials if the Faculty passes the tutorial reform proposals approved by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) last week. Under the proposals, if senior Faculty don't actually teach tutorials, they are at least supposed to drop by for a visit every once in a while...
...which passed the proposals unanimously with one abstention, wants senior Faculty to supervise sophomore tutorials, give their blessing to reading lists and discussion topics, and "occasionally visit" tutorial meetings...
Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was making extensive plans to entertain Teng when he makes his state visit to the U.S. later this month. The proposed program includes a trip to Texas, where Teng can discuss buying oil equipment, a journey to a big Midwestern farm and an extravaganza at Washington's Kennedy Center...
Mitchelson is no lectern pounder; even attorneys who have opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...