Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view of a 19th century visitor to New England, Alexis de Tocqueville, the town meeting was a marvel of "municipal freedom" flourishing in a "semibarbarous" country; he was impressed at how ordinary citizens could gather to settle their affairs with "no distinction of rank." Although the town meeting has been declining for decades-a casualty of increasing population and the complexity of issues-it is still an honored rite of March in hundreds of communities. TIME Senior Correspondent James Bell last week attended the meeting in Huntington, Vt. (pop. 825), a town of merchants, workers and small farmers...
...J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray to consider imaginative concepts for interplanetary exploration. A mission to Halley's comet, which returns every 74 to 79 years, has long been one of NASA's goals. But using conventional space-flight techniques to rendezvous and keep up with the glowing visitor-which reaches speeds of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour as it approaches the sun-would require enormous amounts of fuel and an impractically large and expensive rocket...
...Giscard d'Estaing made a point of not meeting with Andrei Amalrik, an exiled dissident who came to Paris with the express hope of seeing him. When Amalrik pulled up in a cab at the gates of the presidential mansion with a letter for Giscard, police hustled the visitor away...
...country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they would rather have scarce butter or a slab of meat or a bottle of waragi, a potent, banana-base liquor. Money is worthless because there is so little to buy with it. The rare visitor from Kenya who brings in Kenya currency, and risks arrest or worse in so doing, can get five shillings for one, even though the two shilling currencies remain officially...
...visitor was Andrei Sakharov, spiritual leader of Russia's dissident movement (TIME cover story, Feb. 21). Though stripped of all his scientific posts, and harassed constantly by the KGB, he has retained certain privileges, among them, oddly enough, the use of a chauffeured limousine...