Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress blues, the President of the U.S. walked briskly along a red carpet toward the presidential plane Columbine III. Down from the aircraft stepped another President: scholarly Arturo Frondizi, first Argentine chief of state ever to visit the U.S. Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greeted the visitor with warm handshakes, and Dulles' wife Janet smilingly handed Sefiora Elena de Frondizi a bouquet of red roses. Then, in keeping with the printed "Inclement Weather Plan" of the State Department's think-of-everything protocol section, visitors and greeters hurried into National Airport's Hangar...
...70th birthday. ¶ Boosted the U.S. exhibition that is to be held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park next summer as "about the best investment of money this Government has made in a long time." Estimated cost to the U.S.: $3,600,000, about one dollar per expected visitor. Said Ike at a luncheon meeting with the project's advisory committee: he hoped that the exhibition would "show the people of Russia the progress the U.S. is making and its desire to live in peace...
Because of fog -"the last thing we expected to see in New Delhi" -the royal plane was two hours late, but Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, proved well worth the wait. As beaming Prime Minister Nehru looked on at the airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back...
...Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Premier, resided two men. One-the official emissary of a state dedicated to world conquest-was well concealed by the other: a good-will salesman, radiating charm, beaming his subtle pitch directly at the people, and possessing the built-in news value of a mysterious visitor from a mysterious land. The dilemma was: How to report on the fascinating, amiable salesman while keeping a clear eye on the suspicious nature of his wares...
...highly newsworthy visitor, Mikoyan deserved extensive coverage. But most papers, in giving him this due, leaned over backward to preserve the "objectivity" in which the U.S. press takes inordinate pride. Most stories ran as straightforward accounts of the rubberneck tour, without qualifications, without reservations, without showing cautious awareness of the other Mikoyan, the calculating Russian emissary, who followed Tourist Mikoyan everywhere he went. Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, who spent six years in Moscow watching the Soviet's ways, filed Baedeker-like stories in which both the real Mikoyan and Salisbury's Moscow wisdom were invisible...