Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...
...Ricks Memorial Library every afternoon. Harriet DeCell and her hospitality group worked hard to disseminate information to the visitors and have them mingle with the townspeople, who act the way good people do who are not accustomed to being juxtaposed with too many celebrities: a little jumpy and voluble. A woman asked privately, "Did Theodore Roosevelt draw in this many in 1902?" [Answer: No.] A young visitor from Long Island saw a crop duster circling the cotton fields near the new school where the meeting would take place, and thought it might be a Government plane looking for Communists...
...over the fact that when he arrives in the office every morning, the early-rising Begin gets up from his desk, walks over and greets him with a handshake. Says the aide: "I've been tempted to tell him that I'm just an employee, not a visitor...
Another difficult visitor-though hardly in the same league-preceded Begin to Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, notoriously solemn and often cranky, had been angered by Carter Administration pressure on West Germany to pump up its economy and to refrain from selling full-cycle nuclear plants abroad. Schmidt had also expressed fears that Carter's unsubtle, missionary foreign policy style and his human rights campaign were hurting detente and East-West relations. But Chancellor and President took pains to mute their differences, and both sides considered the meeting "an atmospheric success." Schmidt-whom Carter had called "Helmut...
...peak of his rambunctious form, Chairman Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries, one of the world's biggest conglomerates (1976 sales: $3.4 billion), is a curiously compulsive monologuist. Whether lolling with a weekend visitor by a sleepy lagoon outside his luxurious beach house, La Favorita, in the Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded...