Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milton had hardly returned before Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Rio de Janeiro for a two-day visit in Brazil this week. Topic A with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek will be the high-level meeting of American nations Kubitschek suggested after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned and spat on in Lima and Caracas last May. At first Kubitschek suggested a hemispheric summit conference, but after Dulles rejected the notion of a ''meeting on a get-together basis of heads of government," the Brazilian President agreed that no more time should be wasted in talking...
...about their neutrality, the Swiss refused a U.S. request to fly troop transports over their territory, though bankers and businessmen cheered the ability of the U.S. to move swiftly and decisively in the Middle East. But when United Press International's President Frank H. Bartholomew wrote after a visit to Switzerland: "Diplomats and counterintelligence agents say the Iraqi revolt 'was born in Bern,' " government and press alike went through the roof of the Alps. Bartholomew reported estimates that the Reds disbursed $1,000,000 a week to Western European agents through Switzerland, much of the money coming...
...country's ruling junta, who is apparently trying to line up enough popular support to become a "unity" candidate for President in the Nov. 30 election. In a series of quiet meetings, top officers drew up a paper complaining about the "shameful events" of the Nixon visit, demanding that Communists and far leftists be fired from government posts. The military had not decided where or when to air its complaints. But one conservative officer, Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León, lost his temper at a Cabinet meeting last week and slapped a copy...
Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
...that Indian-hating Uncle Wilse (Wendell Corey) will not let the boy be. Snarling like a Ferrari in low gear, Uncle Wilse calls the boy an "Indian savage," uses his bearskin as a rifle target, finally shoots in hot blood an Indian who was on his way to visit the boy. Disgusted with the white man's ways, MacArthur returns to the tepee and joins his mates on the warpath. But at the last minute, will his white corpuscles subdue his red? As sure as arrows whiz and bullets zing...