Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced that President Eisenhower, invited by Nehru to visit India, has "no plan" to do so in 1957. Explained the White House: although Ike would like to accept, a visit to one country would entail time-consuming visits to many others along...
...Summerfield: because of an 1872 act that ends the Postmaster General's appointment after one presidential term and one month more, Ike named the onetime Republican national chairman to the job all over again. "Engine Charlie" Wilson spoke for himself. Returning to his desk after a holiday visit to Michigan, he told newsmen he expected to remain in the Cabinet until the defense budget has been approved by Congress next spring or summer. But he added: "I might change my mind, of course. A man never knows what is going to happen to him these days...
...unruly hair and Roman nose, remained aloof from this excitement. "It's too early," he warned his friends. During the afternoon he stood by impassively as the crowd, still orderly and unled, came finally to Parliament House. It was Communist Party Boss Erno Gero, just returned from a visit to Tito, who touched off the fuse. In a radio speech, Gero accused the people of "provocations." Surging toward Radio Budapest, the crowd demanded the right to be heard. The AVH guards began shooting...
...sudden change of plans, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai this week postponed a scheduled visit to Nepal and cut short his tour of India to rush back to Peking. Probable explanation: before his trip to Moscow next week Chou had to catch up on an unexpected shift in the Chinese Communist line...
...newly arrived resident of Puerto Rico, famed Cellist Pablo Casals, turned 80, looked and talked closer to 40. Spaniard Casals, for the past 17 years a self-exiled dweller in France, explained why he will go on declining invitations to visit the U.S.: "I have a great affection for the U.S., but as a refugee from Franco Spain, I cannot condone America's support of a dictator who sided with America's enemies, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco's power would surely collapse today without American help." The secret of Casals' youthfulness? "The man who works...