Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Carter names a successor, Young will remain at his U.N. post. He will thus complete his one-month tour as Security Council president and probably will lead a group of businessmen on a trade mission to West Africa in mid-September. As for his plans after that, he ruled out running for office in 1980, saying that he intends "to work with President Carter for his re-election...
...carried on a family tradition. Gathering up 15 children, including my Kara, Teddy Jr. and Patrick, as well as Ethel's Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory, Eunice's Mark and Anthony, and some of their friends, I set out in a camper for a fun-filled tour across my home state. We rode the roller coaster, the Dodgem cars and the wave swinger ride at the Riverside amusement park in Agawam. We camped out in sleeping bags. We canoed on Pontoosuc Lake, where Rory and I got doused good when our canoe overturned. We never had to send...
...time, Americanus touristus roamed the world freely, leaving its green-paper tracks everywhere, while its own habitat remained a preserve too costly for the world's other species to visit. Today, with their currencies stronger in relationship to the dollar, more and more foreigners are taking the grand tour of the U.S. In 1960, only some 800,000 came to visit; in 1979, nearly 6.5 million visitors are expected. TIME Contributor Jane O'Reilly accompanied a group of French tourists and wrote this account of the journey...
They came- 19 people from all over France and their tour leader Françoise Simonin, 30 - because, simply, this is the U.S.: a part of their cultural consciousness, a place they felt they already knew well through movies, television and popular music. Well-traveled but speaking little English, the group had paid 10,400 francs each ($2,400) to tour all the sights the French insist on seeing: New York City, Niagara Falls, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Disney World in Orlando, and Washington...
...Rosalynn was out of town as they rolled up to the gate in his and her studio limousines, but swinging Son Chip happened to be on hand. "I see you're doing your part for the energy crisis," chided Chip, who then led his guests on a brief tour and joined them for a hand-in-hand photograph on the White House lawn. What a nice souvenir, especially for the movie's publicity mavens...