Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second part will comprise tours in and around Greater Boston, during which members will visit businesses, factories, housing projects, prisons, museums, and even baseball games...
...under Professor William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School, and Henry A. Kissinger, Executive Director of the Seminar. The participants are selected by means of applications and personal interviews, and with the help of international selection boards. Most of them do not have sufficient time or opportunity to visit the States for a longer period of time, but are vitally interested in gaining a wider perspective through contacts with colleagues from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America...
...Knows. Vice President Nixon implied as much after his first visit to Ike's hospital quarters. Nixon flatly announced there had been no discussion of politics and explained why: "The man who should speak concerning the President's future plans, the man who knows best what the requirements for leadership are in the international field and in the national field, and who knows the burdens of this office, and who knows his own physical condition best is the President of the United States...
Party Matters. Daily, Press Secretary Hagerty emphasized that no visitor had talked politics with the President. Finally, Ike did take up party matters; during a one-hour visit, Sherman Adams reported on the preparations by the convention-arrangements committee for a short three-or-four-day convention, noting, to Ike's satisfaction, that Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be the keynote speaker. But the tacit ban on politics by all hands until the chief himself broached the subject jarred sharply with optimistic Republican organization insistence on the status quo. The indication...
Open Verdict. In Cincinnati, after firing Meter Reader Robert V. Lyons when he was charged with stabbing Mrs. Audrey Evers Pugh on a meter-reading visit to her home, the civil service commission gave as its reason for his dismissal: "Discourtesy to the public and failure of good behavior...