Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope the natural tendency for news media to feature demonstrations has not blurred the real picture of President Johnson's reception in Australia. The whole tour was quite fantastic-it even staggered Harold Holt. It was an uninhibited tribute to a man who faces an awesome task each day, best summarized by those words the President must have heard many times here: "Good on yer, mate!" His visit has established a very firm bridgehead across the Pacific...
When the bus resumed its trip from Vienna to Budapest, TIME'S third overseas news tour was officially under way. In 1963 another group of U.S. business and civic leaders had traveled through Western Europe and Russia. Last year a contingent went to six Southeast Asian countries. TIME'S aim in setting up these trips is to provide leading American businessmen with a direct experience of a major foreign area. To the trade-hungry Communists of Eastern Europe, the latest tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from...
...tour first paused in Paris for lunch with French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who had visited the Eastern-bloc nations earlier this year, and a briefing session with U.S. Ambassador to France Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Germany George McGhee, and the Permanent U.S. Representative to NATO, Ambassador Harlan Cleveland. The group then boarded the TIME-chartered Pan Am 727 for the flight to Vienna and the bus ride to Budapest, the only overland part of the trip...
After a round of receptions, parties and dinners, the tour jetted to Bucharest, where a curious crowd gathered to see the first 727 that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...
...conversations did not end with government officials and U.S. ambassadors. At every stop, the group invited 60 or more outstanding citizens to dinner. They met ballerinas in Warsaw, poets in Budapest, movie stars in Prague, and university professors and journalists everywhere. And the tour left time for the travelers to explore on their own. In Warsaw, two or three visited a Polish university center for a three-hour talk with some of the students. In Budapest, on the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, some of the tour members heard Liszt's moving Coronation Mass sung at historic Matthias...