Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main purposes of Reischauer's tour were twofold. On the official level he went to visit certain universities in the Far East which the Harvard-Yenching Institute helps to support--altogether the Institute supports research and publications in about ten universities in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong--and on a more personal level he went to gain a first-hand familiarity with recent developments in the area...
CANADA Deskman Art White was back in TIME'S news bureau last week after his tenth visit to Canadian bureaus and correspondents in three years. This time White traveled 10,000 miles in four weeks, zigzagging across the country from Quebec to Vancouver, from Churchill on Hudson Bay to Whitehorse in the Yukon. His purpose: to extend TIME'S coverage of that booming nation...
...Felt Like Crying." Thus the years passed with a rare and wonderful fruitfulness. Throughout, old John D. Rockefeller looked out upon his son from his retirement with pride. "I just felt like crying like a baby," said old John D., aged 86, when his son departed after one visit. And once J.D.R. Jr. wired word of a coming visit to his ailing father, aged 96: AM NOT COMING BECAUSE I THINK YOU NEED ME BUT BECAUSE I KNOW I NEED YOU. The next year, aged 97, the old titan died...
Experts in this kind of doubletalk themselves, the Soviet leaders wrapped up Sukarno's visit in a joint communiqué piously proclaiming the "solidarity of the two governments," later let it be known that a $100 million loan to Indonesia (repayable in twelve years at 2½%) had been signed. Indonesia has already had a $100 million loan from the U.S. and last March received what amounted to a gift of U.S. surplus farm commodities worth $96 million. While some Indonesian officials were saying that, by comparison with the U.S. loans, the Soviet loan was "without strings," actually...
...Fresh from a nine-day visit to Moscow (with five other U.S. medicos), where he inspected Soviet methods of treating and rehabilitating heart patients, Presidential Consultant Paul Dudley White touched down in Stockholm. There he told a European congress of cardiologists-he may have been inspired by Russian banquets-that overeating among leading citizens as a cause of high blood pressure and heart trouble, "may play even more of a role in the destiny of the world than the under-nutrition of hundreds of millions...