Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bing (and other officials and artists) at the Met, and he made no secret of the interest he took in being a TIME cover subject. "Is it still on?" he would ask. Writer Ray Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum both had separate talks with Bing, took an exhaustive tour of the new house from the Top-of-the-Met restaurant to the basement practice rooms eight floors below, and saw rehearsals of the opening work, Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra...
...difference in salary with Richard Tucker by flipping a coin (Bing won) or in putting Birgit Nilsson at ease before a performance by bursting into her dressing room wearing a Beatle wig (Nilsson screeched). The unexpected, the outrageous are among his chief weapons. On a recent tour in Cleveland, Bing desperately wanted to persuade an exhausted Franco Corelli to substitute for an ailing tenor. He went to Corelli's hotel, got his room number, went upstairs, knelt in a prayerful attitude before the door and rang the bell. The door opened. A disheveled woman squawked in astonishment. Hmmm, wrong...
...senior citizen on a round-the-world tour needs to set aside some time for idleness. Last week Charles de Gaulle, nearing the end of an odyssey that b gan three weeks ago in riotous Djibouti, took time out as the Senior Citizen of France in its island colonies in the blue Pacific. In Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials...
...President of France had one final bit of sightseeing on his agenda: witnessing the explosion of a French nuclear device hung from a balloon over the French test site at Mururoa. If the prevailing winds were right, De Gaulle at week's end hoped to end his tour with a bang before setting off for Guadeloupe and home...
...skin coats are naturals for dramatic entrances in restaurants and at opening nights. Petite Mollie Parnis, 61, has executed dresses for three First Ladies, Mamie, Jackie and Lady Bird. Dashing Oscar de la Renta, 32, did Anne Ford's wedding gown and Ethel Kennedy's Latin American tour wardrobe...