Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voluntary Codes. Whatever the Supreme Court's decision in the Billie Sol Estes appeal, the television industry has yet to demonstrate the ability to render the TV camera as unobtrusive a court visitor as the pen-and-pencil newsman And whatever view the Justices take about the big eye's right to be considered a court reporter, their ruling promises to have powerful impact on the profession of journalism, which is jealously possessive of its freedom...
Ironically, Sato's first potential crisis was a threatened wave of leftist riots in protest against another U.S. visitor-the nuclear submarine Seadragon, which called last week at the Sasebo naval base on the southern island of Kyushu. But Japan has come a long way from 1960. There were some nasty-looking demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere, whipped up by the Socialists and Zengakuren, the far-left student organization. Cops banged heads as fluttering banners inveighed against Showa no kuro bune-the Black Ship of the Enlightened Peace Era. But the left-wingers were divided and the people generally...
Wary Hope. Western observers watched hawklike for signs of uncordiality between the Russians and their Chinese visitor; naturally there were some, and the conclusion was widespread that the talks had "tailed." Actually, after years of bitterness, they could hardly have "succeeded" in one week, and the significant fact remains that they took place...
...cast has as much fun playing these parts as the audience has watching them. Lynn Milgrim, a frequent visitor to the Harvard stage, lets her mobile face and huge eyes go wild. Her Lydia Languish pouts, purrs, and scolds with vivacious charm. Katherine Squire as Mrs. Malaprop declaims her ridiculous lines with such assurance and poise that they seem even more ridiculous. Earl Montgomery as Sir Anthony is a combination of Elliott Perkins and Nikita Khrushchev, polite and civilized one minute, stamping and roaring the next. As his son, the Captain, Richard Clarke views the behavior of Sir Anthony...
...Wapshots' chronicler, John Cheever, 52, having updated the U.S. picture, was busy catching up on the Soviets too. In Moscow, at the end of a month-long tour of the Soviet Union, Cheever heard Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 31, recite his verse, after which Evtushenko took Cheever, another visitor, Novelist John Updike, and several pretty comrades off to a country dacha for some tonic research into suburban Soviet vodka parties. Cheever concluded that Evtushenko's lyric performance was "the most exciting thing I've ever heard," but he admired even more how Soviet writers have accepted their role...