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...triumphal archway, the red, white, and green Italian flags, the guards of honor, the crowds, the bands, the bannered words of welcome: BENVENUTO AL PRESIDENTE GRONCHI. Along Pennsylvania Avenue he rode at a stately pace, surrounded by the trappings accorded only to the nation's most distinguished visitors, amid the resounding music of military bands. At the White House President Eisenhower was waiting on the steps. "So good to see you," Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this country. I am very delighted to have you here. It is a very...
India's bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...
Beneath grey skies and scudding black clouds, the dignitaries sped off downtown for what diplomats call a tour d'horizon, an overall review of common concerns. The President welcomed Eden on the White House steps. When the visitor asked: "How are you?" Ike, aware of big-eared reporters, cupped his hand and jokingly whispered his reply. During lunch (steak and apple pie). Britain's Eden remarked that the U.S. handling of Marshal Bulganin's request for a non-aggression pact (TIME, Feb. 6) had struck him as "admirable...
...Keys shot out of their keyholes like projectiles. Bells rang with no one to ring them. Pebbles and candlesticks hurtled through the air. Rappings and tappings sounded from all sides like a telegraphers' convention. Even the ghostly nun Marie put in a polite appearance in honor of the visitor. Altogether, wrote Price later, "it was a day to be remembered even by an experienced investigator . . . Sixteen hours of thrills...
Pope Pius XII granted one audience last week that was not listed in Osservatore Romano, and from which the Vatican's photographer was barred. The visitor was Germany's leading Protestant prelate, stern, spike-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius of the Evangelical Church...