Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training in the practices of dyhyana (meditation) as developed by the Mahayana Buddhist School. His mother was the only female he was allowed to receive within his household of servants, monks, abbots and the State Oracle, given to appropriately vague pronouncements ("A powerful foe threatens . . ."). The few Western visitors who, bearing sacred scarves, got audiences, found him a studious, insatiably curious and dedicated boy. He had a passion for cameras and for everything electrical, but he once observed to a visitor: "It is funny that the former body [i.e., the 13th Dalai Lama] was so fond of horses and that...
Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...
...backstage visitor, Actor Ralph Bellamy, starring on Broadway as the young F.D.R. in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word...
Philip Van Doren Stern, Ford visitor at Winthrop House this week, will speak in the Senior Common Room today at 4:45 p.m. His topic will be "Some Unexplored Areas in Lincoln and Civil War History." Stern is best known for his Civil War studies, his most recent volume being The Assassination of President Lincoln...
...Detroit Pistons defender bumped him heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan, but I think Pettit is the best all-round player I've ever seen...