Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
...according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning British queen since Victoria...
...moments, she slept in Napoleon's bed, bathed in Empress Eugénie's bathtub, sat in an armchair used by Louis XV, and (according to the calculations of Frenchmen experienced in such calculations) found time to spend just 1½ hours out of the three-day visit alone with her husband...
...that he dealt savagely with servants who seduced some of his concubines, had one whipped to death). He exercised fully the Sultan's traditional right to exact gifts from his subjects, and the saying was that for the Moroccans, there were three possible catastrophes : drought, locusts, and a visit from the Sultan. Once he called on a minor caid and remarked pointedly on the caid's china, saying: "This is a tea set fit for a king." The cups were in the king's luggage when he departed...
...University of California's first visit to Harvard Stadium nearly ended in a big upset yesterday afternoon, as the underdog Crimson ruggers held the Golden Bears scoreless for 74 minutes. Unfortunately, Cal held the Crimson scoreless for the full 80 minutes, going on to win by one goal (a try plus extra points...