Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser told me the only thing he wants now is a bit of quiet." He might find it hard...
Christianity Is Just the Job In the canteen of a British metal foundry in North Birmingham, 200-odd coveralled workers were assembled. The managing director had given them 20 minutes before they would have to go back to work. A short, grey-haired visitor stepped forward, his blue eyes blazing, his arms pumping violently. "Sin, sin," he cried. "Sin is gnawing away at the human heart. I'm not pointing the finger of accusation at you. I know, as I stand here today, I'm in the same trouble as you. But I know I've found...
...expense-paid travel. In Paris, for example, such a privileged person may be met on arrival by an officer of the U.S. Embassy-sometimes fondly called "the Boodle Man." The traveler is handed an envelope containing the boodle: as much as $500 in French francs. From then on, the visitor is on his own, needs only to check in with the embassy's boodle man to replenish his wallet. In 1955 in Paris alone, some 700 Junketeers availed themselves of this service, to the tune of $100,000; in 1956, the number dropped to 400, the amount...
Good Fellowship. A Red Cross lunch of soup, bread, cheese and sliced sausage was about to be served when the visitor entered the camp dining hall. It was promptly forgotten as photographers and newsmen milled among the refugees who were swarming to greet the caller. Holding his own bravely in the melee, Nixon had a word or a smile or a handshake for anyone who could reach him. "I wish we had time to greet you all personally," he said. The refugees responded with a rousing, "Long live Hungarian-American friendship...
...camp when he arrived. Once again, there was the press of newsmen and refugees, the snatches of conversation, the handshakes and the good wishes, and once again on Nixon's part a winning display of cordial good fellowship. After that came Traiskirchen, another camp, another crowd. The visitor's one quiet moment came as he attended a Christmas party and play for the refugee children in the camp auditorium. When the play was done, the Virgin, a plump eight-year-old, and one of her angels sat happily on the Vice President...