Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge South Africa, and what to do about it, represents an exceptionally painful dilemma for the U.S. TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald just completed a two-week tour of the country. His impressions...
Wherever she went, she listened carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
Emerson Lake & Palmer are best known for their mastery of what is sometimes called classical rock, but what Emerson prefers to describe as "progressive rock with a lot of regard for the past." Their current tour of the U.S. and Canada is the first in 2½ years. Understandably, the faithful at Cobo Hall were eager to discover what their heroes were up to these days. ELP, as they are also known, responded by offering a generous sampling from their new double LP album Works, Volume 1. That included nothing less than a full-fledged Piano Concerto...
...been doing with all those synthesizers, and realized that I was hearing an orchestra inside my head all along. And so I said, 'Don't kid yourself. If you want to hear it that way, then hear it that way. Be happy.' " The expenses of the tour (the cast and crew number 115 people, the tab for the orchestra alone is $40,000 a week) could eventually cost the three stars nearly $4 million. It is too early to tell whether they will get it back, let alone make a profit- or take a bath...