Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain (pop. 90,000) southwest of Ceylon...
...President did nothing about a growing food shortage in the islands, and he went back to his old habits of taking long trips to visit Ceylon, or to see his dentist twice a year (in London). On top of that, the President was at least as cruel and despotic as any sultan, shouting orders, demanding cringing obedience from even his highest aides, punishing minor offenses with as many as 100 lashes, and meting out to more serious offenders that most ancient and unrepublican of sentences-the lopping off of both hands...
British Scorn. Meanwhile, Spain sent its ambassador to call on Anthony Eden to protest Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit on May 10 to Britain's fortress on Gibraltar, "Spanish territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
...school itself was the nucleus of three earlier companies (American Ballet, Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society) before the present company achieved success. Today, more European cities than U.S. cities have seen the New York City troupe. But after last summer's visit, Los Angeles is bidding to bring the company back for six weeks instead of four this year, and San Francisco wants three. Manhattan...
This year Albert Schweitzer was too busy with a new leprosarium to visit the U.S. to report on the work in Africa to the thousands of Americans who have been providing the mission with money, drugs and materials. So he sent Emma Haussknecht...