Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covetous Designs? Riegelman's visit to the State Department highlighted an old flaw in U.S. foreign policy: any attempt to work out decisions for the critically strategic Middle East automatically becomes a hot issue of domestic politics. The Truman Administration zigzagged between the pleas of Pentagon strategists for the conciliation of Arab nations and the domestic pressures for strong support of Israel. When the chips were down, Harry Truman always yielded to political pressure. Generally, Eisenhower and Dulles have worked more consistently to restore Arab confidence...
Royalty comes to Cambridge at noon today when King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece briefly visit the University as part of their god will tour of the United States...
They will stay in Boston only briefly. Following their visit to the University, they will hold a reception for 5,000 Greek Americans' at the Somerset, then will leave Boston...
Writing in the Satevepost, William D. Hassett, a White House secretary under Franklin D. Roosevelt, quotes his own diary to reflect F.D.R.'s bitter-sweet reaction to a bouncing visitor during World War II: "May 27, 1943: Churchill has concluded a fortnight's visit ... It must be a relief to the Boss, for Churchill is a trying guest sometimes-irregular routine -works nights-sleeps days-turns the clock upside down...
...taking the $50,000 Pimlico Special, under a tight rein, in the track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy Martin, Pitchers Mike Garcia and Robin Roberts, and Home-Run Kings Ed Mathews and Hank Sauer...