Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rioting Hindus broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem rug dealers and lockmakers, shouted that Pakistani agents had "cooked up the whole thing" to embarrass Nehru on the eve of his departure to visit King Saud in the Moslem holy land. Police, some of them dressed as Moslem women, prowled the mosques and bazaars and arrested 500 Moslems...
...visit was a surprise to Tito, and from the way he and his comrades acted, an embarrassing surprise. On his visit to the Soviet Union last June, Tito casually invited Khrushchev to repay the visit at some future, unspecified date. Far sooner than Tito & Co. expected, Khrushchev suddenly accepted, and one day last week landed at Zemun airport, to be greeted by Tito and a few retainers. Newsmen were barred, and were left only to wonder at the timing and the intent of Khrushchev's arrival...
...Pictures is a pointless period piece that does, however, include a hilarious dance by three doddering octogenarian couples. While it is at the Met, the company will offer the first U.S. performances of Romeo and Juliet, with the Prokofiev score and new choreography by Frederick Ashton. Then it will visit ten cities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to give more Americans a chance to see ballet storyful, mellow and magical...
...heated refusal to Pabst's president : "It is a shame the clergy has sunk so low" that Pabst would "think the clergy would drink the damnable stuff." But last week Pastor Norwood and six other ministers attending a tristate Baptist Fellowship meeting in Milwaukee paid a surprise visit to the Pabst plant to become, as Norwood put it, "spies in the devil's workhouse...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...