Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Germany's Adenauer left for home, the Finns popped into Moscow for a five-day visit. It was another of Moscow's surprises, capped by a concession. Premier Bulganin, indisposed from the "overwork" of the negotiations with Adenauer, was not on hand to greet Finland's 84-year-old President Juho Paasikivi and Premier Urho Kekkonen when they stepped from the Russian plane that had brought them from Helsinki. But two days later it was Bulganin, pale but smiling, who informed the Finnish Premier that because of the "friendly relationship existing between Fmland and the Soviet...
Three weeks ago, on his visit to the U.S., one of the paroled six called on General Douglas MacArthur at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers. Said the general to Japan's Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: "I think that Japan's so-called war criminals should be released." Shigemitsu thought so too and said so to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...urgency and dedication of her appeal took the city by storm. Newspapers named her the "Fiancée of Death" and called her story the "Second Song of Bernadete." President Café Filho made a personal visit to promise the government's "moral and material support." And Marta Rocha, runner-up in the 1954 Miss Universe contest and honored symbol of Brazilian beauty, went to see the dark-haired girl, wept, and next day broadcast an appeal for funds to build the "Hospital of Bernadete" for care of cancer victims...
...Bernadete was not content to wait for her miracle. Together with Dr. Lopez, she vowed to "do something for others." Existing plans for a modern, 150-bed cancer hospital were dug from a pigeonhole and, after a persuasive visit from Bernadete, city authorities voted a grant of land for the building. Architects promised their work free, but when construction costs were estimated at $370,000, Bernadete decided that Recife's financial resources were too limited. She decided to go to Rio. "We must be quick," she said. "I have so little time...
Looking rather plump, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace stopped off in Des Moines to visit his son, Poultry Farmer Henry B. Wallace, and have a look at his grandson, Henry D. Wallace, nine months old. Wallace smiled proudly at little Henry, who regarded him gravely as news photographers' flash bulbs popped. Wallace told a Des Moines Rotary Club luncheon that President "Eisenhower's plan for mutual inspection of bomb installations in the U.S. and Russia is a practical first step toward making the world safe from one of its most explosive dangers," later added that...