Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kiev and Volgograd-formerly Stalingrad-the pace was as swift, the Russian phrases as fluent, and the overtones of history as frequent as they had been throughout the tour. Standing with Soviet Artillery Boss Marshal Nikolai Voronov on Mamaev Hill, where the Russians turned the tide at Stalingrad, De Gaulle peered through thick spectacles at the map of the battlefield. "Ask Voronov how he organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment...
...realized it before, Charles de Gaulle learned as much during his Russian tour last week. Admittedly, he was hoping to lay the groundwork for a European settlement. But as he flew to Soviet Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become...
...cook or MP at Chicago's O'Hare Air Force Base, he stumbled onto the fact that the base newspaper needed an editor and talked his way into the job. It didn't last long. He wrote a story about a softball pitcher whose tour of duty had been extended so that he could play in a championship game. When the expose appeared, the base commander shut down the paper and transferred Royko to officers' quarters as an orderly...
Beating Arnold Palmer in an Open play-off is no longer news; he has been involved in three and lost them all. Casper did it spectacularly. Once the "fat young man" of the pro tour, now slimmed down 45 Ibs. (to 180 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame) on an antiallergy diet that includes such entrées as buffalo steak and mooseburgers, Billy was converted to Mormonism last Jan. 1 and spent the night before the play-off attending a church "fireside" 35 miles from San Francisco. Next day he fired his fourth subpar round...
...Then Voltaire. In Switzerland, Boswell pulled off the first great coup of his tufthunting tour: an interview with Europe's second most famous author-Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Go away!" moaned Rousseau, who had to go to the bathroom. "Not yet!" Boswell gritted. "I still have 25 minutes." Liking his nerve and his sincerity, Rousseau gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman...