Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week, determined to get power back into their own hands, the die-hards prepared a parliamentary mousetrap for Paratroop General Jacques Massu, who had pledged his soldierly loyalty to De Gaulle on De Gaulle's visit to Algiers a fortnight ago. By careful prearrangement, a decoy faction among the diehards noisily proposed that the junta adopt a resolution denouncing De Gaulle and all his works. When Massu, as co-president of the junta, protested, the remainder of the diehards introduced a "moderate" counter-resolution. And when the decoy faction grumblingly accepted the second resolution, Massu was convinced...
...want to see Bulganin, buy a bouquet of flowers and go visit him at the hospital." Bulganin, demoted from Premier, "has been very ill" and has just had a "successful but serious" operation. Will he go back to his job as head of the state bank? "Now you are interfering in our internal affairs," grinned Khrushchev. ¶ How about Malenkov, supposedly managing a hydroelectric station in eastern Kazakhstan since his downfall last June? "You can buy a ticket and go visit him," shrugged Khrushchev. "I have not seen him in a long time, but the last time I heard...
...Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. After he delivered the note, Rubottom talked privately in Kubitschek's office for 95 minutes, continued over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras Camargo is to be inaugurated Aug. 7. Still in the discussion stage: a meeting of chiefs of state after the foreign ministers...
...lessons demand radical wrenches from the status quo-but Puerto Rico's ground-breaking example is impressing the whole world. In the garden of a bungalow overlooking Amman in Jordan last week. Social Welfare Director Hussein Bushnak sipped Turkish coffee and spoke with warmth of his visit to Puerto Rico. "Before I went there, I had been told that work of great importance had been done." he said. "But I was astonished at the scope of what I saw." He added: "The Governor is an impressive man. He has achieved much...
...warm, fresh or wan, according to the weather or the hour . . . The place seems to personify itself, to become human and sentient and conscious of your affection. You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it; and finally a soft sense of possession grows up and your visit becomes a perpetual love-affair...