Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Respect, Then Esteem. Into Nairobi last week, to adjudge the balance between the settlers' anxiety, the campaign's necessity, and the black man's historic emergence in Africa, flew Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. It was Lyttelton's third visit to Kenya in 16 months, and the war's latest statistics bore out his concern. Six thousand British, 44,000 African troops, police and home guards are now deployed against some 14,000 Mau Mau and their supporters. The war costs more than twice as much ($1,800,000 a month) this year as last...
Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, flying around the world on a 42-day good-will tour, arrived in New Delhi last week for a visit with his old friend, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru welcomed St. Laurent at New Delhi's Palam Airport, then scheduled a dozen public and private meetings with him during the next four days...
...hitch in the band. Finally, along with more study at Columbia on the G.I. Bill, came the succession of prizes and (since last year) a full-time job as editorial adviser in the Manhattan offices of Broadcast Music. Inc. (B.M.I.). His trip to Tucson was his first visit in more than 15 years...
Stephen leaves Gair, but he cannot shake off a gnawing question. Why, he asks Crome on a second visit, did he stop writing after the critical success of Cockaigne? Nothing of the sort, confides Crome; he merely stopped publishing...
...highbrow writers, a handsome, American-born Italian princess nearing 72 is the closest thing to a patron saint in the world today. When they visit Rome (and that is the thing for them to do these days), they vie for invitations to her home, a gloomy Renaissance palazzo with an irresistibly highbrow address: 32 Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There they get fruit juice and cakes, plenty of rarefied talk about writers and writing, and lots of sympathy. The Princess Marguerite Caetani's interest in their work is as genuine as her 800-year...