Word: visits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his earlier visit to Moscow, Pravda had pointedly published Dubček's own report on the meeting: "The Soviet comrades expressed anxiety that the democratization in our country should not be exploited against socialism." And Dubček had no sooner departed than the Kremlin summoned the leaders of East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria to Moscow for a quick discussion about what to do about the Czechoslovaks. Their problems are real. Every fresh liberalization emanating from Prague adds to the discontent in other Communist nations, whose people would like the taste of a little...
Kenyon has the same restrictions on recruiting that Harvard has--the coach may not visit a player away from the college campus. In both places, therefore, the burden for getting top players falls on the alumni, Harrison said, adding that he hopes to develop a country-wide alumni organization and at the same time use his own coaching contacts to deliver the talent...
...architect, Peter Harnden, who has been hired by Barcelona's Society of the Friends of Gaudi to help restore the building to Gaudi's original design: "It is a continuing surprise and delight to me, so rich in detail that I find something new each time I visit it." The recent discovery of a long-lost cache of Gaudi drawings in a factory shaft may enable Harnden and his associates to enrich the crypt with still more Gaudi delights...
...felt like a proud father (Lady Bird had said "that would be boastful"), or grandfather ("some people think I already talk too much about my grandson"). Instead he billed himself as "a proud uncle." Explained L.B.J.: "You all know how an uncle is. He doesn't visit often, but he likes relations to do well. I won't be remembered as a patron of the arts, but I should be delighted to be known as an uncle of the arts...
...Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which he was put on disciplinary probation), and recently returned from a three-week visit to Communist Cuba, which he glowingly described as an "extremely humanistic society...