Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet in Lederhosen named Christopher Flanders (Paul Roebling), who clearly hopes to stay on for free. Craftily suspicious of freeloaders, Flora keeps the handsome young man at one villa's distance while she rifles his field pack to learn that he is 34 and constructs mobiles. A witchy visitor of Flora's vintage, Vera Ridgeway Condotti (Mildred Dunnock), warns her that Chris has been nicknamed "Angel of Death," having been the questionable companion of several old ladies at the time of their demise. Bent on one last fleshly fling, Flora decides to seduce Chris...
...visitors are mostly retired salesmen, since they are considered most experienced at making friendships. Volunteers try to visit from 15 to 20 people at least twice a year, often take their wives along on the theory that women can spot problems that a pensioner may be too shy to talk about. At a cost of about $11,000 a year, Unilever reimburses visitors for their travel expenses and for the modest birthday or anniversary presents that each visitor is encouraged to give to the pensioners on his list. The only gift barred is cash. "Money may give the impression...
Most pensioners on the Unilever visiting list held modest jobs in their days with the company, but any retired employee is visited if he wants to be. One newly named visitor, a retired secretary, discovered with apprehension that on her list was the name of a former Unilever director. Bravely bearding her man in his London hotel suite, the visitor to her astonishment was warmly welcomed and persuaded to stay for lunch. Says Unilever Pensions Officer Philip Clemow: "Senior people frequently are just as pleased to have someone take notice of them as those who were in junior jobs. Anyone...
...priest, he was removed because the Romani did not consider him quite safe?he was proposing such unthinkable ideas as that mixed marriages might be allowed in certain circumstances. He languished as a letter copier in the Oriental Congregation until the Holy See discovered that it needed an apostolic visitor to remote Bulgaria (1925-34). From there he went for ten years to 98 % -Moslem Turkey, and was transferred from exile to troubled France near the end of World War II only because the Holy See did not want to spare a top man for that messy post...
Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...