Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touré party compared notes, all hands agreed that the warmest personal experience of all had been the visit to the Libertyville, Ill., home of Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time...
...Nations, repeating his pleas for understanding of Africa's struggle against colonialism; was guest of honor at an official city luncheon in the Commodore Hotel and at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner given by the African-American Institute. At week's end he canceled a proposed 48-hour visit to Canada, announced he would catch his breath in Manhattan before flying off this week for London and home...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
Things have been quiet in Coon Rapids, Iowa, since the clamorous visit of Nikita Khrushchev in September. Matter of fact, Khrushchev's Iowa host, corn-rich Farmer Roswell Garst, allowed last week that he had not even got a bread-and-butter note from his Soviet acquaintance. But Garst was taking the apparent ingratitude with equanimity: "Probably won't hear from him again until he wants something...
...inducement to plug the Hess store in their columns. Nevertheless, that was what Hess got from three of the columnists. Said Considine, who wrote about the store's stock of exotic foods: "Made a nice little feature." Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess...