Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Pairs of Glasses. King Saud, who had extended his visit a week beyond the three days originally scheduled, prepared for his departure in high spirits. The President gave the King an eight-piece desk set and an original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination...
...child has been born since Elizabeth became Queen. In the teeth of the storm, royal spokesmen issued a firm denial of any rift between the Queen and her consort. This week Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated during a six-week whisker-growing contest aboard the Britannia...
...their white faces, each man in turn told his fantastic tale. Said one: "In order to turn us into obedient servants and make us forget our love for our mother country, the Americans encouraged drinking, gambling and bad language among us and even took us to Munich to visit immoral houses to enjoy ourselves." Beetle-browed Press Chief Ilyichev tied the show to the Soviet maneuver in the U.N. with a long commercial charging the U.S. with waging a "secret war" of subversion and espionage against the peace-loving Soviet Union. Said Ilyichev: "When you live with wolves, you must...
...Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal) attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard...
...United States will send representatives of the host institutions for a return visit to India. "Although we expect to send one such representative from the University," Graubard said, "he has not yet been named. The faculty member chosen will probably be on leave for a full academic term...