Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P.'s nominee in August, has since spoken on the phone with the President perhaps a dozen times. Last week, just six days after the election, Dick and Pat called on Lyndon and Lady Bird. The four lunched together. Then, as the hostess took her successor for a tour, the men went to work. Sitting in a familiar spot-the Cabinet Room's vice presidential seat-Nixon was briefed on major security problems by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and other ranking officials. After three hours and 50 minutes, Johnson and Nixon faced the press. It was Nixon...
...ROTC programs, Harvard is not inviting an individual whom it feels is an expert on military history and policy, but rather is inviting the Defense Department to establish Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies and to staff them with military personnel who are to serve a tour of duty for the express purpose of training future officers...
...left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when I get back to Arizona," said Max. And, with a little tape around his chest, off he went in his twin-engine Piper Aztec on a 33,000-mile tour that should take him to Alaska, the North Pole, Norway, North Africa, South America, the South Pole, New Zealand and Hawaii before he gets home...
...Orwell, with his clarity, charity and honesty, is undiscredited. He can be read today by the young without boredom or nausea-despite the fact that he was in most ways as square as an unsoaked sugar cube. Reading him today is like taking a guided tour through the seven circles of the political hell that Western Europe built for itself on the bases of the Depression, (the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the cold war. There is no trace here of the characteristic vices of the political intelligentsia of his day ("The ching that frightens me about...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...