Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney chose the well-scrubbed students of Keene State College to hear his plan to neutralize North and South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia under international guarantees. He reported positive interest from world leaders during his latest globe-girdling tour, which included South Viet Nam. Soviet Pre mier Aleksei Kosygin, Romney reported, had failed to come up with any better ideas...
Clouded Chances. The fund was only one issue on which Percy has been collecting bad notices. Last month when he took his wife Loraine into Dak Son during a five-day tour of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong opened fire with mortars. The incident might have been all to Percy's good as publicity, but the popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered...
...Richard Nixon, ready for his official announcement in February, unleashed his strongest attack yet on the Johnson Administration. On a Texas tour squired by Republican Senator John Tower, the Republican front-runner attacked Lyndon Johnson by name, parodying his State of the Union message. "Can this nation afford to have four more years of Lyndon Johnson's policies that have failed at home and abroad?" he asked Dallas Republicans who braved rainy skies to greet him. "Never in history has the United States been in more trouble in more places than today. Never has so much diplomatic and military...
Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, is dropping salt in the samovar again with yet another batch of soul-scraping poems published in the Russian journal Znamya. The poems derive from his six-week tour of the U.S. in 1966, and one in particular-Monologue of a Blue Fox on an Alaskan Animal Farm-seems an especially bold statement of the rebel's own schizoid loyalties. The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur. Then it discovers that the door to its pen has been left open, only to make...
...fella' to the hundreds he shakes hands with on a fast neighborhood tour. And how about President Johnson's hand flutter to airport crowds and his 'Y'all come...