Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, came and told Bhave to take as much as he wanted of Prasad's land holding in Bihar. Members of the Planning Commission came and stayed for hours. Even a delegation of Communists, headed by Party Boss Ajoy Ghosh, paid a courteous visit. After eleven days, Bhave left New Delhi and has not been back to the capital since. He dislikes cities...
Finally, on being assured that the medicines contained no animal matter, Bhave consented. He improved almost immediately. During his convalescence, Nehru and Prasad flew down for a visit. And his disciples carried on with Bhoomidan-yagna, collecting 33,000 acres of land. When Bhave took to the road again, the donations came in so fast that the ash ram's bookkeeping system was almost snowed under. Last week, after 110 miles of dusty tramping in Bihar, he had picked up another 365,000 acres...
Coach John Kenfield's North Carolina team arrived in town last night sporting a 19 game winning streak and some of the nation's best college players. The Tar Heels, in repaying the Crimson's earlier visit to the South, should provide some of the best tennis seen in Cambridge this year...
...from Canada to England, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito enjoyed a five-hour visit in Manhattan, including a breakfast reunion with his former tutor, Elizabeth Gray Vining (Windows for the Crown Prince). Did the prince like the city? Said he: "[It is] the most wonderful masterpiece ever created by human beings...
Bishop Bowers will return this summer to his Accra diocese (pop. 1,311,000), where the number of Catholics has risen in the last 14 years from 12,333 to 33,800. But before he goes back to Africa he will visit Bay St. Louis again, to ordain two Negro priests. That will be another first for St. Augustine's Seminary: the first time in the church's U.S. history that Negro seminarians have ever been ordained by a Negro bishop...