Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doan was disarmingly honest, as were all the public relations men, scientists, and minor officials we met in our frenzied one-day tour of Dow's Midland, Mich., facility. They all talked about making money through the market system, and they all believed that society would benefit from their efforts if only they concentrated on making money...
...morning tour bus drove through a gate in the miles of barbed wire fence surrounding Dow's plant, 4500 acres of land. "The largest industrial complex in the country within one fence." 700 smoking buildings. Miles of ground-level piping. Miles of overhead piping. Hundreds of vats, some of them 40 feet in diameter with a soupy green liquid bubbling inside...
There was a gap, but it was a barrier far more formidable than the barbed wire fence where a Dow guard takes away your camera while you go on your tour of the plant. It was a gap between people who enjoyed working for a profit, who accepted money flow as a measure of their success, and people like me who felt uncomfortable all day with the idea...
Last week their latest college tour brought them to the University of Tennessee, Mississippi State University and Bloomsburg (Pa.) State College. By year's end, their 35-member troupe will have played enough college and town dates to gross around $1,500,000. Wherever they stop, they give completely. "We simply try to do a little more than required," says Sam. "If this means we have to sing one song for 50 minutes, then we sing the song for 50 minutes." That may seem terribly long, but when Sam & Dave pound out Hold on, I'm Comin...
Miss Blueye was arrested on August 11 with an Italian friend while she was on a Harvard-Radcliffe tour...