Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department, reaction was less dramatic but still pointedly directed against Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia. A seven-week tour of the U.S.S.R. by the University of Minnesota symphonic band was canceled. So was a special Aeroflot junket of Russian VIPs to New York to promote the new Moscow-New York flights (though the regular Aeroflot and Pan Am flights will continue). Finally, at week's end, the State Department halted a cultural-exchange program with Poland, and announced that further moves were under consideration. A cultural program with Rumania-the only Warsaw Pact nation that did not join...
After Huie denounced Wallace on a lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went on television to tongue-lash the writer. Getting the message, racists made abusive phone calls. For four nights, a procession of cars drove slowly around his block while Huie stood by the window with his riot gun. In July, when a cross was burned on his lawn, he wired Governor Albert Brewer, pointing out that since Wallace is given state protection, his enemies should have it too. Brewer agreed to give him what he wanted, and now the local police provide frequent patrolling...
...David Wolper's new film, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, which travels across Europe by bus, flashing past such scenic beauties as Miss Berger, Virna Lisi, Anita Ekberg, Catherine Spaak, Joan Collins and Elsa Martinelli. All in all, quite a package for the tour...
...dismay of television producers, all touring golf pros do not look like Arnold Palmer or Doug Sanders. In fact, a great many of them roundly defy the pat promotional image of the lean, handsome man-about-the-links. Stoutness is not only stylish on the tour these days, it seems to be a prerequisite for success. Witness Jack Nicklaus, Julius Boros and Lee Trevino, who have together won five tournaments this year and a combined total of $391,802. It is enough to make Minnesota Fats want to trade in his cue for a niblick...
...controlled panic, Annie launches herself into the kind of picaresque Parisian tour beloved of Vassar girls in their junior year. Boys woo her, flics pursue her; an older man takes her to a boite. Eventually, she and a cellist make beautiful music together on his pallet. When the sun comes up, Annie returns to bid farewell to her aunt and to her childhood...