Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, keeping in touch with national headquarters only through hastily squiggled notes on postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with the notation that this man "rides the elephant much better than Ike does." Harry Truman, on the eve of a nostalgic visit to Washington, is lodged in a quiet limbo between politician and elder statesman, exerting no party leadership. His latest newsworthy act was to let traveling members of the Oklahoma Junior Chamber of Commerce make him an honorary Indian chief in Kansas City, Mo. Stephen Mitchell, chairman of the national committee...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
Party-giving Perle Mesta arrived in Moscow for a visit to the Soviet Union. Asked her profession by a Russian customs inspector, the ex-Minister to Luxembourg replied: "I have none...
...union I will personally appreciate." Stalin gave his permission for Gilmore to marry, "as a special exception on [Willkie's] recommendation and vouching." When their first child was born a year later, the Gilmores named her Victoria Wendell, and in 1946 Gilmore and his family paid their first visit to the U.S. But once back in Russia, when the cold war began, Gilmore's wife and child were no longer allowed out. Two of the three other correspondents in Moscow who work for the U.S. press had married Russians and were in the same fix. Despite repeated requests...
...25th Infantry Division have contributed more than $130,000 for an orphanage in Osaka, Japan, and many of them visit it on leave from the-front...