Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accra turned out last week to greet Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip. Tribal chiefs sat under ceremonial umbrellas at the airport. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was there, beaming, and 150,000 people lined the streets to shout "Akwaaba" (welcome). There were many kind references to Queen Elizabeth, whose pregnancy prevented her being there. But Prince Philip could hardly travel anywhere in the Commonwealth and find less evidence of her influence. His official cavalcade rolled slowly down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and turned into Kwame Nkrumah Circle. A huge statue of Nkrumah confronted him at Parliament House. Before Prince Philip...
...Charlie Porter was understandably hesitant about going on to Formosa. At his request, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II made some discreet inquiries, assured Porter that he was still welcome. He was. Although Chiang was, unsurprisingly, too preoccupied to see him, the top officials of the Nationalist government turned out to greet Porter at a dinner at the home of the U.S. chargé d'affaires, on the day of his arrival. Sensing a certain "strain in the air," Porter opened the conversation jovially: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view...
...finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover, a few Italians were miffed because President Eisenhower was not at the field (he sent Vice President Nixon to greet Segni), and because the President took off on his California vacation right after having Segni to lunch. The person who seemed to mind least was Antonio Segni himself. Small and frail at 68, Sardinia-born Statesman Segni glided through his visit with a quiet confidence drawn from years of achievement...
Though exhausted from their first gala welcome of candidates, CRIMSON Editors will again be on hand to greet the new comers tonight. Old myths will be exploded, new ones created in this second and last day of the Bacchanalia...
...five strikes and a spare, and autographed his score card of 218. In mid-conference that afternoon, Eisenhower and Khrushchev took off together in a helicopter for Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Khrushchev inspected Eisenhower's prize herd of Black Angus cattle, dropped by the main farmhouse to greet...