Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caracas (pop. 87,000), the balmy capital (average temperature 70°). is the national show window-a bursting city overhauling itself so fast that the visitor who returns only once a year can easily get lost. Under clouds of dust, half pulverized rubble and half cement, new super-boulevards crash through old slums, and lavender-painted buses soon roll along them...
...Tallulah's visit in the capital, however, was marked by such sweetness and light wit. Another Washington visitor, Britain's bodkin-tongued Lady Astor, was invited to share a platform with Actress Bankhead as a fellow guest of honor. Nancy Astor replied that she would never appear anywhere with "that perfectly horrible woman . . . I'm repelled by her!" Upon hearing of ex-M.P. Astor's unparliamentary affront, Tallulah snorted: "She probably disapproves of me as much as I do of her, the bitchy old hypocrite!" Urged to tone down her statement...
...current market value of the investments which comprise Morris' endowment is $13,156, and the income from this even together with the 6d (7 cents) admission fee charged each visitor, is now wholly inadequate to cover the cost of upkeep...
...summer afternoon in 1945, an American newsman asked a visitor to Moscow, "What do you think of Zhukov?" Answered Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Georgy is a very decent fellow. [If he were] left on his own, I believe I could do business with him." Last week, when Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was named Defense Minister of the Soviet Union, the question whether the old friendship would affect U.S.-Soviet relations became the subject of international speculation...
...friends received a letter from one of the important Deans. In the message my friend was asked to act as a host for a prospective member of the Class of 1959 who was to visit Harvard this weekend. Elaborate plans were outlined in the letter describing the young visitor's schedule. The high school student was to be Harvard's guest at any of its dining halls (the tab was to be signed "Committee on Admissions"); appointments had been made already for a meeting between the visitor and prominent Harvard athletic coaches; in short, my friend--with the specific cooperation...