Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charismatic leader of the world's newest democracy will visit Harvard this coming weekend during her first official visit to the U.S. as president of the Philippines...
...whirlwind visit to Boston filled with official speeches and ceremonies, Philippines' President Corazon C. Aquino will meet with Harvard scholars and address a Sanders Theater audience on Saturday...
Corazon Aquino, who assumed her presidency in February, will be accompanied by the highest ranking ministers in the Filipino government on her visit the U.S. Her eight-day itinerary includes meetings with World Bank officials, addresses to both a Joint Session of Congress and the United Nations, as well as lunches with President Reagan, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Congressional leaders...
...August rafting down the Colorado River with his three children: Hilary, 27, Victoria, 24, and Thomas, 17. (His wife Sissela, a professor of philosophy at Brandeis and author of two well-received books, Lying and Secrets, normally accompanies him on such expeditions but had to go to Sweden to visit her ailing father, the famous sociologist Gunnar Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, he continued to play in Cambridge as head of a campus team called "Bok's Jocks." One day six years...
...there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various English and Russian words should...