Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Dakota Democrat was standing amid a jostling airport crowd in Libreville, Gabon, where he was catching a plane home after a tour of southern Africa that had taken him to the Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola and Ethiopia. The swing was no breezy Baedeker tour. As a result of Iowa Senator Dick Clark's upset defeat in last month's elections, McGovern is in line to chair the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, assuming incoming Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church continues the custom of having such geographical subcommittees. McGovern's trip was partly intended...
...grand tour the likes of which had not been seen since young gentlemen of means packed steamer trunks and set off by luxury liner to sample the rich life on the Continent. The bon vivant strode around a stud farm discussing bloodlines and conjuring up breeding programs for the stallions of his fancy. He dined on Welsh rabbit at a lush country estate, pondering a new business deal with each course. Hobnobbing with titans of industry, he discussed ventures in pharmaceuticals, breweries and public relations...
...young Rockefeller making the rounds of his father's friends? No, Peter Edward Rose, 37, third baseman extraordinary, tour guide and head auctioneer of the most remarkable free-agent sale in baseball history. So well did Rose peddle himself that the former Cincinnati Reds star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing...
...blocks. At its U.S. debut in Washington, the collection drew 835,000 visitors, more than the entire population of the District of Columbia. It attracted an even bigger crowd in New Orleans (870,595), and was credited with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors. That figure could have been doubled if the museum had been able to handle the crowds. Seattle's Art Museum drew 1,293,203. When the show packed up, Seattle stores...
...Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man in 1928. After tracing the history of horse breeding to the time when the animals first entered the service of man some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors proceed upon a world tour of stud-farms on five continents. They repeat much delightful lore, including stories of Colonel William Hall Walker, who matched mares and stallions according to their zodiac signs and had a horoscope cast for every foal...