Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's finest hour on his tour came the next day in Seattle when he addressed 5,000 American Legionnaires at their annual national convention. Wearing a blue and gold Legion overseas cap lettered "Georgia, Post No. 2," the candidate said that while the U.S. needs to cut military wastefulness, its armed forces should remain as strong as the Russians'. Then he gave a real zinger to the Legionnaires. He opposed a blanket amnesty for the men who had deserted or dodged the draft during Viet Nam, he said, because that implied approval of what they had done...
...Georgian came back from his four-day tour feeling "very, very pleased" with the way things had gone for him and for Ticket Mate Walter Mondale, who had been barnstorming in the Midwest and the East. Carter displayed a sure sense of timing on his trip, a confidence that fell short of cockiness, and even an occasional flash of wit. In Des Moines, he remarked that he was not really campaigning at all-he was just letting people know that his official campaign would begin with a Labor Day address at Warm Springs, Ga. "My wife's in Tampa...
...slow journey down the red shag aisles of the Republican Convention was like a tour that Ken Baker of Jackson, Tenn., might have set up in his travel agency to show off postcard America...
Early Sunday morning, to the sound of church bells, the evacuation began. Small pickup trucks, cars and buses clogged the roads to the adjoining island of Grande-Terre. Some residents were taken out by sea. And some others, participants in the Tour de Guadeloupe bicycle race, left on their bikes. "Most people didn't wait to pack," said Pierre Renaison, 52, a biologist. "They left with just the clothes on their backs...
...just to prove it, Comedian George Burns paired up with Singer-Actress Carol Charming last week and took to the dance floor. George, who has just written a new book titled Living It Up, or, They Still Love Me in Altoona, had come to New York on a stage tour with Channing, 53, and at a preshow party in Manhattan, the two showed their style with some bump and hustle. Well, sort of. "Carol was doing the hustle, but I was still doing the peabody. When I like something, I stick to it," noted Burns. "The only ones...