Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homeland. "A travesty of truth," replied Ashkenazy from Greece, where he was vacationing. Indeed, the pianist has not set foot on Russian soil since 1963, when he fled Moscow in fear and disgust. Ashkenazy explained that he had been forbidden to travel for three years after his U.S. tour in 1958, and was later granted an exit visa only on condition that his wife remained in Russia as a "moral hostage." Eventually, Khrushchev gave them permission to travel together, arid once they left home, they never returned. "No sane person would wish to run such a risk again," said Ashkenazy...
Zambia's greatest damage will probably be to itself. The country needs private investment capital, and, as New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said on his recent South American tour, "investment capital likes to go where it is loved." Kaunda's action can only encourage potential Zambian investors to go elsewhere in search of affection...
...Chuck Berry, 41, is keeping up a steady working pace-four two-day engagements this month and an English tour in September-performing his famous Mabellene and 117 other numbers he wrote...
...whose tight harmonies and sharp rhythms in big sellers such as Wake Up, Little Susie influenced the early Beatles, seemed to be washed up by 1960. Since January, though, their bookings have picked up handsomely. They have performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Fillmore West, and will tour Europe next month...
...Jerry Lee Lewis, 33, who was riding high in 1957 with Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On and Great Balls of Fire, was riding low a year later when, on a tour of England, the press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin-fully five months before divorcing his second wife. After that, and some other calamities, he plugged along until about a year and a half ago, when his records caught on big in the Country & Western field. At an appearance last spring at The Scene in Manhattan, where he received a standing ovation, tears...