Word: visitor
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...Republican Governor George Romney has striven to prove his campaign contention that he was a "citizen's candidate." Right after his inauguration last January, he established "Citizen's Thursdays," an open-door invitation to anybody who has anything whatever to say to him, provided the visitor says it within five minutes-a timer rings a bell to mark the close of each interview...
Hardship Post. Houston is located on an exceedingly uncomfortable site. Hot, dry air sweeping down from the Midwest collides with the humid turbulence that boils up from the Gulf, creating a climate that, according to a widely traveled visitor, closely resembles that of Calcutta. From May through October last year, the thermometer reached or topped 90° on 109 days. On the flat plain, water from heavy rainfall stagnates in puddles and drainage ditches, adding to the steamy humidity and providing an abundance of breeding places for a perennial plague of mosquitoes. For putting up with Houston's weather...
Three Black Sedans. The pawn of these delicate negotiations leads a spare and lonely life inside the drafty old building at Szabadsag Ter 12 in Budapest. Legation officials admit few visitors, and the guest list for the Mass that he celebrates on Sundays is forwarded to Washington for clearance. By all accounts, the cardinal remains chipper, although one U.S. visitor who heard him preach recently says that his mind tends to wander. At night, only he and an American duty officer occupy the legation. Outside, three black sedans of the Hungarian secret police are on around-the-clock alert...
...solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes from the nightshirt-like galabiya. Most astonishing is the fact that a visitor seldom sees a barefoot man, woman or child. Even urchins from the Cairo slums wear shoes-and socks. Today Cairo walks well-dressed, well-shod and bareheaded, with its shoulders back...
...ominous warning from Robert Stevens, onetime Secretary of the Army under Eisenhower and now once again president of his family's big J.P. Stevens textile empire. Stevens was discussing the plight of the U.S. textile industry, and his words were directed at Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a beleaguered visitor to the convention. The textile men had hoped that Dillon would show up with at least part of the Kennedy Administration's long-promised relief program for textiles, gave him only grudging applause when he did not deliver...