Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urge to enhance Macmillan's prestige with the British electorate; to the Russians, Britain's Socialists, with their distrust of the U.S. and their more experimental approach to the cold war, have more appeal than the Tories. Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position in Berlin, Khrushchev complained to his companions that Macmillan...
...Campaign Speech. The blowup came on the fourth day of the visit, when Macmillan's back was turned. Though feverish from a nagging cold, Macmillan dutifully allowed himself to be bundled off to the Soviet bloc's Joint Nuclear Research Center at Dubna, 95 miles south of Moscow. With Macmillan safely out of the way, Candidate Khrushchev-running unopposed for the Supreme Soviet of the Federated Russian Republic in this week's "elections"-delivered a campaign speech that shook the Western world (see above...
Wearing his Eton tie and an English suit darned at the knee, Burgess called on another Etonian, his old classmate Randolph Churchill, one of the visiting British newsmen, who was disconsolately staying at Moscow's Hotel National. Burgess, now stocky, florid, and with greying hair, seemed fidgety but in good health. His mission was to ask Churchill's help in appealing to someone in the Macmillan party for a safe-conduct that would enable Burgess to visit his sick 70-year-old mother in England. Churchill refused (another British correspondent, over a Scotch, promised to make inquiries...
Though his country is the smallest in the Western Hemisphere, El Salvador's President, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Maria Lemus, 47, will get what Latin American diplomats call the "full enchilada" when he arrives in Washington next week on a twelve-day state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin...
...last week announced that he had invited Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Ike's host a fortnight ago, to visit the U.S. this spring...