Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planet Solaris. In retaliation for radiation bombardments from the station, the sentient sea creates figures from the spacemen's sub conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...
...Reagan's chief of staff during this year's campaign: "They all tell him, 'You gotta run again, you gotta take over the party, we gotta get this thing organized.' " Reagan, for his part, has not been playing his Reluctant Ronnie role. Says one recent visitor, Stanford Professor Martin Anderson, a Reagan issues adviser: "I found him in a far more combative and interested mood than he was in before this election year...
...afterlife: alabaster cups for his wine, bejeweled amulets to ward off evil spirits, even an ivory-inlaid wooden throne to make him feel at home. But greater treasures lay ahead, as Carter discovered when he delved further into the tomb. What he saw (and what the exhibit visitor will see) was "strange animals, statues and gold-everywhere the glint of gold...
...staff at Grand Rapids' solid old Pantlind hotel is buzzing with excitement because the Secret Service agents are coming to check it out for Jerry Ford's visit. He plans to stay there when he returns to vote on Election Day. In the hotel coffee shop, a visitor can buy a religious record or a book of Bible stories-or a tumbler emblazoned with Ford's image. Route 131, which cuts through downtown, was christened the Gerald R. Ford Freeway in 1975, and the President's name also adorns the gym at the Grand Rapids Community...
Prime Target. Some police officials speculated that the prime target of the terrorists, whoever they were, might have been Ewart-Biggs' visitor, Cubbon. As Britain's top civil servant in Northern Ireland, he had been participating in exploratory and unproductive peace talks between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Belfast. Since efforts to set up a Catholic-Protestant coalition government in Ulster collapsed last January, the Labor government's "policy" in Northern Ireland has been to have Britain's 14,500 troops there simply lean on their rifles and let the two sides continue to slug...