Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office adjoining McNamara's suite at 7:30 a.m.-half an hour behind his boss. While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
...rushed to get into Britain before July 1, when the new Commonwealth Immigrants Act comes into force. In the past, any citizen of the far-flung Commonwealth could exercise his right of free entry into Britain. As of July 1, he can enter only as a stu dent or visitor, or if he holds in advance a paper from Britain's Ministry of Labor confirming that a definite job awaits him. In the scramble to reach Britain, Indians in New Delhi paid bribes of $600 to get seats on planes; in Pakistan, the forging of hard-to-get passports...
...main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs has decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
...after the entire top echelon of the Plan Organization resigned because Justice Ministry gumshoes had brought all work to a standstill by asking "thousands of stupid, irrelevant and vexatious questions," Amini promised to take immediate action on Ebtehaj's case. More important, the Shah himself became a frequent visitor to a Teheran bowling alley owned by Mrs. Ebtehaj, promised to help her husband get out of jail...
...royal visitor, the King of Bulgaria, was impressed with many things he saw in St. Petersburg, but what impressed him most was the man named Carl Fabergé. "My dear Fabergé," said King Ferdinand, "if you were in Bulgaria, I would make you my minister." To which the famous court jeweler replied, "No, no, your majesty, not politics, I beg of you. But minister of the goldsmith's art, why yes, sire, if you will...