Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLOSET is large and cluttered, the air inside dank and dismal, obscuring the skeletons of abuses past. Until recently, the entrance had been tightly bolted. But here comes Thomas Powers, flashlight in hand, following in the footsteps of others making a more complete tour, illuminating more hidden recesses and rattling more skeletons than anyone else...
...Dalai Lama, an exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, will speak tonight at Harvard on "The Nature of Self" in the last stop of his 46-day tour of the United States...
Despite the isolation, families are often reluctant to leave when their two-or three-year assignments are over. Many of them volunteer for another tour. So do the unmarried servicemen, which says something about the quality of the fishing and sailing since there are only 250 single servicewomen on the base. Navy Chief Jim Starr explains why his wife and two teenage daughters are delighted with Gitmo: "We haven't been together this long since 1959." The climate is particularly popular with many Americans. Says Nieta Morrison, wife of the base's executive officer: "I feel like...
...mile trek in the 1930s by Mao and his troops that eventually led to the takeover of China. To check on the progress toward this goal, TIME Science Editor Frederic Golden last month visited Chinese research centers, universities, hospitals, factories and communes on a 15-day, five-city tour with the first delegation of American science journalists to the People's Republic. His report...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...