Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including dollar bills with Presley's portrait in place of George Washington's (price: $8). A package of 19 original Presley records is being offered for $9,500. A Columbus, Ga., used-car dealer is restoring the singer's first Cadiliac to take on a national tour. A Delaware outfit called Factors Etc., which has obtained exclusive merchandising rights from Presley's estate, plans to market posters, LOVE ME TENDER T shirts, jewelry, statuettes and Christmas-tree ornaments celebrating Elvis' life...
...black mingled with villagers wearing gaily embroidered costumes and city youths in Western jeans and printed T shirts. The crowd had reached 10,000 when the Rev. Billy Graham, visibly moved at the reception, made his way to the rostrum last week to begin his first Soviet-bloc preaching tour in three decades of gospel globetrotting...
...next venture for the champion Cosmos will be a demonstration of American soccer on a worldwide tour this month that includes stops in Caracas, Tokyo and Peking. Then Pelé will play the final game of his career in an October exhibition in New Jersey that will pit the Cosmos against Brazil's Santos team, his former squad (he will play the first half for the Cosmos, the second half for the Brazilians). Meanwhile, the soccer players are learning fast some of the more rewarding nuances of U.S. sports. They are in the process of forming a players...
...quarantine in Peking has its counterpart in the carefully guided official tours by which the Maoist authorities have shrunk the "immense and varied universe" of China. Westerners are limited to the dozen or so cities, factories, communes and schools whose reason for being seems to be the welcoming of friendly travelers. Leys takes the tour, finds that aside from a few carefully preserved historical monuments, China's cultural treasures have been sealed off behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments...
Benson apparently intended One on One to be his tour de force, the film that would firmly establish him in Hollywood. He will probably succeed in this venture, since the folks who make movies look only at the box office receipts. That which sells is good; that which bombs, no matter what its artistic merit--well, too bad. Benson not only starred in One on One, he co-wrote it with his father, a professional screenwriter. The family that makes films together gets rich together...