Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper accounts of his illness and the speculation about a successor depressed him. But his spirits lifted with a second visit from President Eisenhower, after which the President headed off the speculation at the presidential news conference...
...Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...
Preceded by an eager army of 100 Western reporters.* Macmillan was caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev...
...after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope, in his urbane way. to correct a few misimpressions (he expected to find Russia as much changed from his brief 1929 visit, he said at the airport, as "England is today from the picture painted by Dickens"-an amiable dart at Russia's favorite source of knowledge about Britain). He further hoped during his visit to the Soviet Union to plumb Khrushchev's intentions by dropping a few hints...
Indian and Pakistani newsmen, who had read of Philip's informality and friendliness, were startled by his repeated rudeness. But it was an old story to British reporters, who still recall the duke's 1957 visit to Gibraltar, famed for its cave dwelling monkeys. On meeting the reception committee, Prince Philip asked in a clear voice: "Which are the press and which are the apes?" Even one of Britain's stoutly Tory editors conceded that "there's no doubt the duke's a bit Teutonic. In effect, he tells the reporters to bugger...