Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secrets and the right to photograph each other's territory from the air. The U.S. is ready to accept a Russian plan to station disarmament inspectors of each country at harbors, rail junctions and airfields of the other country; but the U.S. will also insist that the inspectors visit atomic-weapon plants...
...performing their prescribed duties, the agents acted just as they would in this country whenever the President visits a city outside of Washington, and the same precautions were taken in Switzerland as we would take in the U.S. There was no reflection on the Swiss people any more than there would be on the citizenry of any place the President might visit in America. The Swiss police were most cooperative, and were as anxious as we were to see that the President arrived and departed safely...
...Been a Judge." Carmine De Sapio, the first Italo-American leader of Tammany Hall, understands only a few words of Italian (he recently sat next to an Italian diplomat at a dinner, listened politely for an hour, did not learn until later that he had accepted an invitation to visit Italy). He does not remember ever hearing his parents converse in Italian; quick-witted Marietta and hard-working Gerard De Sapio spoke English, tried to teach their son that he was an American, pure and simple. Between them, they established a solid little trucking business, came to own a stable...
Mayor Tibbits hopes to deposit his discoveries in the proper place. Taking "some of my most obvious gems with me," he is leaving England this week for a civic visit to Warwick, R.I., intends to stop off at Yale. "It would be a great pleasure," says he, "if the authorities of Yale should ask me to undertake further research on the history of their founder." If not, there is always Harvard...
...same heady excitement that "Let's start a magazine!" did a generation ago. In 1953, Jascha Rushkin, a violinist with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, whispered the words into the ear of Metropolitan Opera Baritone John Brownlee. In time, facts were added: 1) some three-quarter million people visit New York's Catskill Mountains every summer; 2) a Catskills civic association pledged to buy $100,000 worth of tickets for a five-week festival; 3) the former NBC Symphony, now famed as the Symphony of the Air, had time on its hands...