Word: visitores
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Entering the crowded city room, the first desk a visitor runs into is that of a crew-cut young man in shirtsleeves, who looks like a cub reporter fresh from journalism school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...
Once the ice was broken at the Fort Worth session, the answers to the visitor's "What do you do?'' came fast and even flippantly...
...nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking in the cold. Gallantly, the general bent like a great, gawky crane to accept a bouquet of flowers. "Merci,'' he said. "Thank you." And hours later, as he finished a speech at the Civic Auditorium, the visitor was still stirred with emotion. He spread his arms and shouted "Vive Chicago!'' - a temporary geographical lapse that his translator promptly straightened...
...Governor Earl Long in his own convertible. Ole Earl, less than a year away from his revolving-door visits to a clutch of psychiatrists, beat time with his straw hat when he could hear the band. On the reviewing stand he showed up once more to chat with the visitor, once grabbed De Gaulle unceremoniously by the lapels - "something," as an aide put it, "that probably hasn't happened to him since Saint...
Politely, De Gaulle joined in the full panoply of ceremony, listened with evident pleasure while his comrade in arms from World War II welcomed him at Washington's International Airport "in be half of the American people." But given his own turn at the microphone, the visitor was quick to remind his audience that there was a summit meeting coming. "A grave international debate is going to take place in three weeks," said he. "Before joining this debate it is necessary for me to consult with the President of the U.S. ? this dear, illustrious man on whom so much...