Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Harbor Islands--Mass Audobon Society shows you nature at its finest (?) on the harbor islands, or what's left of them. Saturday tour, call...
...reason is that while a tour in Africa is hardship duty, the odds are still good that a young Cuban will survive the experience. So far the number of Cuban soldiers who have died in Africa is relatively small. The exact statistics are secret, but a top Cuban official says that those killed number "only in the hundreds." Knowledgeable Western sources put the figure at 1,000 or slightly more...
...meantime, a second delegation of Chinese military men was ending a twelve-day tour of Sweden's defense facilities. There they had looked at, among other things, Swedish-built submarines and the Saab-Scania supersonic Viggen fighter jet. This week the delegation heads southward to see what Italian manufacturers offer in the way of land, air and sea weaponry. A similar delegation of Chinese experts visited France last autumn to inspect materiel there...
People obviously open up to Howard, sometimes at their peril. Count the bodies garroted with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where...
After leaving Harvard in 1938 with a degree in Chinese language and history and a traveling fellowship, Teddy White made his way to Chungking, Chiang Kai-shek's mountain-girt wartime capital. There White began reporting for TIME, and in 1940 the magazine sent him on a tour of Southeast Asia that eventually took him to Manila and to a man who was then an outcast from power or influence, but not for long...