Word: visitor
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Every receptionist is familiar with the situation: an importunate visitor without an appointment insists on seeing the boss to air real or imagined grievances. Such was the case with the confused, middle-age woman who pestered the receptionist last week at the Manhattan head quarters of the Deak-Perera foreign exchange company before being ushered out of the office. It might have been just another wrinkle of life in the big city--except the woman soon returned with a gun. Before she was tackled and disarmed by a police officer, Lois E. Lang, 44, had shot to death Receptionist Frances...
...highly industrialized U.S.S.R. could learn from agrarian China. But they have at least been inquisitive about Deng's reforms, and by some indications more impressed than they like to admit. Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Co. (a giant U.S. corporation dealing in farm produce) and a frequent visitor to China, journeyed to Moscow in 1984 and had a two-hour private talk with Gorbachev, who was then still in charge of Soviet agriculture. "He was very curious about what I told him concerning the reforms," Andreas recalls. "He particularly wanted to hear how China's joint-venture system...
...contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established a headquarters a few months ago for his Fatah Revolutionary Council, Abu Nidal has also been a frequent visitor to Iraq and Syria...
...exposed, another takes its place. Edward finds Jesse, but the old man is apparently being held prisoner in his own house. He says the three dutiful acolytes have tried to poison him. The women tell Edward that Jesse is ill and deranged, a demigod whose powers have failed. The visitor wonders why he came and cannot seem to leave: "Is it just that, for some reason I shall never know, I have to take part in the final act of a drama...in which I shall be casually annihilated...
...American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder 63 miles...