Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those behind the Iron Curtain, B. & K.'s visit here was a tremendous shock...
...days that failed to shake the world," the London Economist called it. The visitors had not made off with the heart of the British common man-something Khrushchev had badly wanted to take home as another trophy from his diplomatic safaris. Through most of the visit, B. & K. remained remote and formidable figures in big black cars behind a 21-motorcycle escort (a sight hitherto unknown in Britain), but they soon sensed in the public's cool reserve that they were not being officiously sealed off from the kind of hysterical triumph they had scored in India...
Labor's quiet little dinner party may prove the most instructive lesson of the great visit. Before a knowledgeable audience, it was the sharpest glimpse of the reality behind the beaming smiles of the Kremlin's Traveling Illusionists...
...Silly Intrigues." As for the phrase "Blas Himmler," said Robles sardonically, "how could it be regarded as injurious to compare anybody with Himmler when Herr Himmler (chief of Hitler's Gestapo) was received with full honors and presented with the highest Spanish decoration during his visit here in 1940?" The sentences handed down by the court were surprisingly light: six months to a year and $125 to $250 fines...
...Rome leprosy congress was the brainchild of Frenchman Raoul Follereau, a professional charity worker who has devoted nearly half of his life to fighting the taboos associated with leprosy. Follereau, a roundish, energetic man of 52, has traveled 450,000 miles to visit leprosy victims, to convince them that their banishment from society is not condemnation to limbo, to encourage them to take treatments that can and will cure many...