Word: visits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet Nam. Some float down the Chao Phraya to visit Bangkok's Floating Market. A few are interested in watching the Thais fly their fighting kites-the national sport-or catching a Thai boxing match, where flailing feet are used as much as hands. Most make a beeline for Bangkok's myriad bars and massage parlors, carefully supplied by U.S. authorities...
...Times also speculated that the "feeler" indicates Marcos may be planning a state visit to the United States in summer. Harvard confers about a dozen degrees every year on the condition that the recipients accept the degree in person...
...help to Diefenbaker's cause. He never denied having had a "physical relationship" with Gerda, but insisted that she was a "lady of distinction" who was "welcomed in Montreal's select circles." As far as his own friendship was concerned, there was a platonic all-night visit to her Montreal apartment as late as November 1960, during which, he said, he did nothing more indiscreet than take a nap in a chair...
Secret Huddle. Scarcely had the speech clattered through the Kremlin telex machines when Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was airborne for a visit to Bucharest. For three days he huddled with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with...
Belonging to the People. In the end, even the White House became interested. A year ago, Lyndon Johnson invited Hirshhorn to lunch, suggested that he consider giving it to Washington. In August, Lady Bird and Lynda Bird made a two-hour visit to Hirshhorn's Greenwich home and outdoor sculpture garden, returned with ecstatic reports. Finally, it was the call of country that won out. Said Hirshhorn: "This collection doesn't belong to one man; it belongs to the people." The news was too good to be kept quiet for long. Last week word of his decision leaked...