Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soothing Reply. Nehru had made quite a day of his visit to Mussoorie. That morning, he gave a political pep talk to local Congress Party workers, then moved on to Mussoorie's Savoy Hotel to address the Travel Agents Association of India, crisply advising his audience that travel "should involve some adventure, some risk, some hardship," because the "comfortable life is rightly boring and dull...
Nehru suggested that Red China send its own puppet ruler of Tibet, the Panchen Lama, plus any interested Red Chinese emissaries, to visit the Dalai Lama and see for themselves that he was not being held "under duress" as the Red radio proclaimed. Nehru hoped that conditions would "some day" relax so that the God-King might go home to Tibet. His own contribution, whether intentionally or not, was to deaden the world's outrage, while the Red Chinese put down the rebellion...
...midst of the Castro visit, the New York Times, one of his warmest U.S. press friends all through the revolution, abruptly shifted its news line with a 1,400-word story on growing Communist influence in the Castro regime. In pursuit of "revolutionary justice," noted the Times, "it has become customary to arrest members of the Batista armed forces, publish their pictures in the newspapers, including Hoy, the Communist organ-asking if anyone has an accusation against these...
...American-Grace Airways, which transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard College broke precedent yesterday afternoon by visiting Radcliffe College. In tacit recognition of a long series of moves which have gradually made Radcliffe College and Harvard College almost indistinguishable, the Overseers' committee took time out to consider some of the problems posed by this as yet informal merger...