Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world should ever issue something comparable to Poor's Index of business trustees and their innumerable directorships. Dr. Satya Prakash of India would be high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other...
...come to at the end of a two-month world tour. Once a well-ordered colonial city under French rule, Hanoi became a jittery, bordello-ridden citadel during the Indo-China war, but after five years of Communist rule has turned into a place where, says one frequent foreign visitor, "the only noise is the absence of noise. Nobody smiles. Not even the children laugh...
...smaller type advertised a 7½-minute documentary film presenting the highlights of Israel's Independence Day celebrations for the benefit of visiting members of B'nai B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers...
Blues Singer Billie Holiday, 44, laid up in Manhattan with a host of internal ailments aggravated by longtime alcoholism and dope addiction, was arrested in her hospital bed. The rap: illegal possession of heroin, which Billie had somehow obtained, probably from a smuggling visitor...
...pulled at my eyelids to find out what they concealed? I couldn't be certain about this." These titillating opening sentences promise events sinister, portentous or at least symbolic. But "he" turns out to be nothing more alarming than a pet monkey who had wandered into the visitor's hut in a game reserve in Kenya. The reader is soon introduced to the monkey's owner - a precocious ten-year-old girl who can converse familiarly with animals and gets no back talk...