Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legionnaires were cordial but not feverish in their applause, and so it went through most of Ford's tour. As one lowan put it: "He's like an inch and a half of rain in a dry year. Nice, appreciated, but not enough." But Ford likes this kind of campaigning-so much so that he plans to be out of Washington almost every weekend all fall. There will be fund raisers from Newport, R.I., to Seattle, Wash., a Baptist convention in St. Louis and, of course, the University of Michigan's football game against Michigan State...
...finished in divorce 14 months ago. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 43, and Richard Burton, 49, appear strong enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple are acting coy about another wedding. At the moment...
...Indiana Botanic Gardens, a company that has a mailing list of 300,000. Increasingly, commercial herb farms are becoming tourist attractions. At Caprilands, in North Coventry, Conn., visitors are shown through 14 different herb gardens, including one containing all the herbs mentioned in Shakespeare's works. The tour ends with an herbal lunch in the 18th century farmhouse of Caprilands' Adelma Simmons, who has written five books on herbs. Many of the new herb fanciers are rediscovering ancient health cures. Genine Kepnis, manager of the Organic Food Cellar in Cambridge, Mass., says that one salubrious seller is goldenseal...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan was named the new American Ambassador to the U.N. three months ago, some diplomats braced themselves for the arrival of a real ogre. It was Moynihan, after all, who, having just wound up a two-year tour as U.S. Ambassador to India, wrote a controversial article urging the U.S. to quit kowtowing to the Third World. Instead of apologizing for America's "imperfect democracy," he said, the U.S. should take a tough stand toward the new nations, especially their tendency to band together with the Communist countries in anti-Western positions...
...also offers a reminder of how close they came to succeeding. If people rarely have the time, inclination or endurance to travel this way any more, Theroux suggests, the loss is theirs. To see the world slowly is to see oneself clearly. "After all," he concludes, "the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home...