Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...media event was over. That night they would open the Southeastern Fair amid Joie Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning...
...Antal Dorati, 72. The elders of the Detroit Symphony needed someone who "could turn the orchestra around" when they picked Dorati. He has wasted no time planning several festivals, an international tour and a batch of recordings. "Detroit had not traveled much and had made no recordings in well over a decade," says the maestro. "I am the archenemy of that kind of routine." Dorati is an old-school, tremendously versatile conductor whose artistic innovations are matched by his administrative skill. "Mr. Dorati could even run General Motors," says President Robert Semple. That is the ultimate Detroit accolade...
...table payments have been replaced by out-of-this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World...
...stars are not only welcome at the big-name championships, they are free to jet from high-paying tournaments to still higher paying exhibitions to the stratospheric payoffs of staged-for-TV challenge matches. Once Jack Kramer, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall dreamed of an organized tour circuit that would provide steady income to pro regulars. The current Big Three-Borg, Connors and Argentina's Guillermo Vilas -can now ply their trade on two multimillion-dollar tours, Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix circuit. However, this year none of them has deigned...
...Robert F. Kennedy. The book's breadth and scholarship merit this attention; future students of R.F.K. and his age could do far, far worse. But those too young to have experienced the 16 turbulent years of Kennedy's public life may leave Schlesinger's extended guided tour with a pronounced feeling of bewilderment. Why did Bobby waste time campaigning for the presidency when he was so obviously a candidate for canonization...