Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment at least, China's leaders are holding steady to the foreign-policy course laid down by Mao Tse-tung. One sign is their decision to continue the long-planned, 23-day China tour by former U.S. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in Chinese eyes a symbol of American toughness toward the Soviet Union. Last week, midway through his 7,250-mile itinerary, the ex-Secretary traveled to distant provinces along China's northern and western frontiers, including Tibet, which no American is known to have visited in 26 years. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, one of three...
Many people dream of escaping the world and fleeing to some unspoiled tropical isle. Most of them settle for a couple of weeks in the Hamptons or a package tour to Puerto Rico. Not Gunnar Thorkild, the half-Polynesian, half-European hero of Morris West's latest novel. The grandson of a great Polynesian navigator as well as an instructor at the University of Hawaii, Thorkild publishes a paper claiming that even in this day of earth satellites and up-to-date hydrographic charts, there exists in the vastness of the Pacific an island known only to Polynesia...
...Toski clan of Bob, Jack, Tom and Ben, who have been a driving force behind golf in New England. Bob Toski, who is the game's foremost teacher and whom Donovan calls "the pro's pro," won the Greater Hartford Open when he was a regular on the pro tour in the 1950s...
...during his hour-long tour Hammer remained the consummate businessman--even taking phone calls, one of them from Columbia's Soviet scholar and Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to arrange a meeting later that afternoon, presumably to discuss Soviet-American relations...
...best and worst of Boston dance belongs to its own small dance community. The safe, established and pleasantly mediocre sails through each year on tour. Boston is too close to New York, or its theater space is too limited, to be included on the circuits of companies like the New York City Ballet or American Ballet Theater. The only big names visiting this year are the Jose Limon Company at Brandeis (November 5-7) and Alvin Ailey (February 18-20) and Pilobolus (November 12-14) at the B.U. Celebrity Series. The Celebrity Series often sells out early for names like...