Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Changing Faces. In Kazakhstan, key to Khrushchev's grandiose scheme to plant grain in the virgin lands southeast of the Urals, the visitor from Moscow angrily changed faces, interrupted a regional party leader who reported that the grain harvest had been "reduced" this year by shouting: "That would be expressing yourself mildly. You did not reduce it, you wrecked...
...Skittish Now? At least as powerful an influence on the future of the predominantly Protestant ecumenical movement was the admission of the Communist-dominated churches. Many a visitor to the Assembly-and certainly some delegates-thought, from the way the voting went, that there was nothing but joy unconfined over the move. There was no debate on the subject; it had been specifically banned to shush any boat-rockers. There were cheers and applause when the vote was announced (142 for, three opposed, four abstentions), and again when roly-poly, auburn-bearded Archbishop Nikodim, head of the 16-man Russian...
That day's lunch was the first chance that President Kennedy got to size up the general. He later invited his visitor into his office to continue their conversation, conducted through interpreters, for 1½ hours. Although the session seldom got down to specifics, General Park promised the President that South Korea would hold elections and a constitutional referendum in 1963, assured him that he was working to improve South Korea's touchy relations with its old enemy, Japan. Kennedy came away favorably impressed with Park, willingly posed with him for pictures calculated to enhance the general...
...most interesting in New York is often most difficult to find, and the knack of living both well and at the same time inexpensively in this most varied and wealthy of cities is not easily acquired. The purpose here is not reiterate the usual sites but rather to direct visitor's attention to some of The City's more unique and lesser known attractions...
Princeton fosters an uncanny conformity among its undergraduates, evident from the moment a visitor walks onto the campus. They dress in one of the two Nassau costumes--tweed or dungarees and old sweater. They share a quiet enthusiasm for Princeton. It is this conformity which allows Munson to run his paper the way he does...