Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan's Governor George Wilcken Romney, the six-state 8,270-mile western tour he concluded last week should have been a breeze. The territory was generally friendly, the audiences for the most part restricted to fellow Republicans and brother Mormons. No rivals have yet ventured out on delegate-hunting safaris. At this stage, the not-yet-announced candidate for his party's 1968 presidential nomination needed only to make friends and influence local politicians-which Romney did with his usual energy and skill. But there was another chap along, with the same iron grey hair, rugged profile...
...test, as for so many public officials these days, was Viet Nam. For months Romney has declined to take a definite stance, asking time for deep study of the problem that will include an Asian tour later this year (he first visited Viet Nam in 1965). Fair enough. But last week, with the conclusion of his ruminations still far off, Romney began to claw at Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy without offering a hint of possible alternatives...
...poet passed his 60th birthday in the midst of a six-week reading tour at colleges in the U.S. Back in London, the Sunday Times invited some of W. H. Auden's rhyming friends to celebrate the event. Stephen Spender, Christopher Logue, Maurice Wiggin and Ted Hughes all sent in earnest occasional paeans...
...mark of distinction is not automatically stamped on every British theatrical export. The Bristol Old Vic, which made its Broadway debut with two Shakespearean plays last week in the midst of a four-month tour of the U.S. and Canada, is, as its name implies, a provincial repertory troupe. The company tends to substitute energy for excitement; it gives drama the steady, dependable joggle of a railroad trip, instead of scaling peaks or plumbing abysses. The actors read their lines with unfaltering clarity, but they seem less well acquainted with the minds and hearts of the characters they are playing...
Died. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 60, another of Dixieland's good men tried and true, a cornetist who in the 1920s and early '30s was the rage of Chicago speakeasy society, went on to tour the land with Ted Lewis, Ben Pollack, and eventually with his own Dixieland band, surviving bop and all the new styles until 1964 when ill health forced his retirement; of a heart disease; in Sausalito, Calif...