Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon is underwhelming Europe, and the Europeans seem rather grateful," reported TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, who accompanied the President on his tour. "In a curious way, his strength was that he was so much himself. He was plainly not quite relaxed in the midst of ceremony, even the modest amount included in this trip. If there was not charm, there was simplicity. If there was not sophistication, there was common sense and decency. He created no jealousies, taxed no one's ingenuity. He was a little clumsy but sincere, a little uncertain but determined...
There was only one major gaffe in an otherwise flawlessly executed tour. The White House released the text of an effusive arrival statement of praise for Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...State William Rogers and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. Though protocol places Kissinger (TIME cover, Feb. 14) well down the ladder, he was virtually inseparable from the President. Kissinger has long been disturbed by U.S. inattention to Europe, and he was Nixon's key consultant throughout the tour. To the 15 ambassadors from NATO's member nations, Nixon proposed that after 20 years the alliance "must replace the unity of a common fear with the community of a shared purpose." He noted that the U.S. has already begun preliminary planning for a Soviet Summit. "In due course...
...triumphant tour of Europe last month, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman amused his audiences by insisting that he, James Lovell and William Anders were older than they would have been had they not flown to the moon. "I think we should get overtime for that," he complained. Borman was joking about his pay, but he was quite serious about his aging. During their moon mission, the astronauts aged about 300 microseconds (300 millionths of a second) more than the people they left behind on earth...
...eight twelve-minute periods got going, however, the action quickly developed into a free-for-all. Whirling around the track at 30 m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates and beating them over the head with his helmet...