Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South East Asia Tour...
...budget for 50 campers and 20-odd staff members for six weeks is $8000. The N.S.A. groups hope to exceed that figure in money and gifts of supplies to carry on for eight weeks, doubling the number of campers in two tour-week periods...
Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax dollars had provided billions of unconditional foreign aid, could be expected to chip in again...
Seven foreign military attachés, on an inspection tour through a Canadian artillery training center, were asked a recurring question: Did they think Russia had The Bomb yet? Their answers...
...composer himself, who at 34 looks like an overworked undergraduate, will not be in the audience when the Met's gold curtains part this week. He will be off on a concert tour of Italy and Holland. A shy fellow, but sure of himself, Britten wasn't worried about how Peter Grimes would fare in Manhattan. Since London first heard Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in June 1945, it has been cheered 115 times, in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Berlin, Budapest, translated into eight languages, and praised in all of them...