Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
Profitable Inconvenience. Willy Brennecke, general manager of the dignified old (90 years) Schloss-Hotel Hahnhof, agreed to evict his regular guests to make room for the new visitor-Saudi Arabia's oil-rich and autocratic King Saud. It would be inconvenient, but inconveniences could be tolerated in Baden-Baden for a party prepared to pay $10,000 a day. While Willy mobilized, other Baden-Baden innkeepers embarked on the difficult task of persuading their own guests to double up in bathless bedrooms in order to take care of the princely overflow...
Shortly after 10 o'clock one morning last week, a frail man in a light grey suit stepped out of a Soviet-built IL-14 transport onto the tarmac of Belgrade's Zemun Airport. Dutifully, the visitor surrendered himself to a welcoming bearhug from his stocky, sun-bronzed host, accepted bouquets from four dewy-eyed young Pioneers, and acknowledged the salute of a snappy, blue-uniformed honor guard. Then Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito headed off across the Yugoslav capital in a motorcade whose first three cars were a Rolls...
...Alexander dropped dead at 26,"*suggested a learned visitor who had been wondering out loud whether the champ's aging (37) legs and slowing fists were equal to 15 rugged rounds. But Ray professed not to hear. "We know what Basilio's been doin'," said Sugar's soft-spoken manager, George Gainford. "Practicing bobbing and weaving. We know what to do about that. Look at his face. He's been hit plenty, so why can't Robby hit him? When the fight's over, why I'll assist Mr. Basilio...
...learned visitor was wrong. Alexander died...