Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tour directors will not hesitate to remind you of Dunster's obvious assets. They are: (1) excellent food from a private kitchen; and (2) seven squash courts...
...disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail fluttering to earth like dry leaves. Presumed cause: either a mid-air explosion or disintegration...
...took up with in 1956 shortly after his exile and married in 1961, arrived in Buenos Aires last fall with twelve suitcases, $30,000 worth of jewels and a Spanish hairdresser for a duenna-and sparked angry riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas. After an emotional 8,000-mile tour of the country, she settled into her present routine. From 9 to 1 she receives delegations from near and far, gives pesos to the needy, tells them all: "I am the little mother [madrecita] of all Peronistas. I only wish their union...
...AURELE NICOLET, 40, Rampal's leading rival, last week started a ten-concert tour of Israel. A slender, clear-eyed man whose art is often touched with a quality of rapture, Nicolet is a poet of the flute who may well become its greatest virtuoso. While Rampal stands always a little aside from the piece he is playing, Nicolet knows how to yield to the music and enter more deeply into its being. Rampal is a magnificent mannerist, Nicolet the profounder stylist...
...SEVERING GAZZELONI, 47, the grand master of the difficult contemporary repertory, this week begins a monthlong concert tour that will take him from Copenhagen to Tripoli to Minneapolis. Fidgety and ferret-bright, Gazzeloni started noodling around with atonal music about 20 years ago, got fascinated when he found that in order to play the new music he had to dispense with the traditional flute technique and develop a new one. After several years of experiment, he developed one that permits him to cacophonize like an electronic menagerie. His art appalls the classical masters, but it reveals an exciting and significant...