Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning were the Russians. They came to Geneva smiling, waving at the crowds, breathing good will, issuing invitations to one and all to come visit the Soviet Union. "Things are different now," cried burly Nikita Khrushchev...
...Russian delegation posed willingly and often for photographers, while press officers hovered around, asking solicitously: "Anything more you want them to do?" In one of the new-style chats with a U.S. delegate, Old Stony-Face Molotov got to talking of the picture of him on his recent U.S. visit wearing a ten-gallon hat. "You see," he explained, "I am getting old now, and I'd like the people-including the Americans-to think of me as something more than a man who says no." The hat didn't fit, Molotov added, "but it's more...
...last week the Moonsammy girls asked their father for permission to visit a married brother who lives only a few miles away. The answer, inevitable and as uncontestable as the grave, was no. The girls went to their beds. Eight hours later, when their mother looked in on the room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just...
Britain's gruff, Manhattan-born Sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 74, returned to his native island for a brief visit, sallied through an outdoor show of the Sculptors Guild with all the verve of a bull in a statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned...
...more pleasing to art dealers than the appearance at their doors of Joseph Hirshhorn, a garrulous, hurrying little man with a big cigar. Multimillionaire Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) works with headlong intensity at his mining interests (uranium, gold, oil), "steals time" every week or so to make a whirlwind visit to a gallery. "I'll be in the middle of a meeting," he explains, "when I'll just get up and tell the boys I've got to go, but I don't say where...