Word: tour
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Snug Burrows. For nature study, the museum has taken birds and butterflies out of glass boxes and installed them in a simulated forest that the children can observe from overhead platforms. There is also a tunnel tour below the forest floor, where they can see wood-chucks, weasels and chipmunks all snug in their burrows...
Bare Feet and Bathrobe. When the Orchestre de Paris left last week for an American tour, the usual thing would have been for the U.S. ambassador and his wife to have the conductor and the concertmaster to dinner. Not the Shrivers: they asked all 110 members, from Conductor Charles Munch to the tym-panists, and included a batch of French music critics in the bargain. Shriver gulped down his dinner and table-hopped. His characteristic opener: "Very glad to have you here. What else do you think we should be doing...
During September's auto-pricing controversy, he not only went to Washington but broke tradition by holding a press conference, with tour of his six top officers, to explain why the company had raised its '69 prices. This month he departed from tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
...Zorba--A flashy, technical tour de force, also a candidate for best serious musical of the decade. At the SCHUBERT, 265 Tremont...
After breakfast, before the bus tour, one Dow scientist gave a 20-minute lecture on Dow's plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...