Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss drew Washington's attention to the chief reason he had been willing to allow the Soviet man in the street opportunity to cheer Richard Nixon. "This plane or some other one." he shrugged. "That is not a question of principle." How soon did he want to visit the U.S.? "When the time is ripe," said Nikita. "In good time...
...more Canadians than any. other reigning sovereign in history, gave gracious thanks for her welcome and flew home across the Atlantic by Comet jet. Her long, sometimes too arduous tour was more a personal success than a triumph of monarchy in highly independent, increasingly nationalistic Canada. Elizabeth's visit, both in her formal role, officiating with President Eisenhower at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada belongs as a vital and equal young partner. Her Canadian subjects greeted her with neither awe nor indifference...
...feet, men," mumbled the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman. nodding sleepy-eyed over a glass of white Georgian wine in Sverdlovsk's Grand Urals Hotel. His sentiment was shared by all of the 73 U.S. newsmen accompanying the most tireless tourist ever to visit Russia: Vice President Richard Nixon. "[The other] tourists encountered along the way are regarded by now rather enviously as a happy, carefree lot," cabled the Washington Star's European Correspondent Crosby Noyes. "For them there are, presumably, no pre-dawn departures, no missed meals, no ghostly excursions into the night...
Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in full, together with some hot-tempered letters from readers: "It is not necessary to exaggerate, Mr. Nixon...
...this might have endured forever had not West Pakistan's Governor Akhtar Husain paid a visit to Quetta and looked around in vain for a daily paper. For his embarrassed hosts, who laid out Quetta's nine weeklies as a substitute, Husain had a proposal beautiful in its simplicity: "Why not come out on different days of the week so that Quetta has a fresh paper every...