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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the scabrous slums of New Delhi to the gilded grandeur of Versailles, Jimmy Carter absorbed a hefty chunk of the world in his grinding nine-day tour of seven countries. It was a trip compounded of princes and paupers, of weighty talk and lighthearted banter, of solemn ceremony and hilarious, sometimes embarrassing slipups. The down-to-earth couple from Plains greeted the New Year by joining the royal couple of Iran in the fairyland setting of the Shah's palace, amid a whirl of dancing, conviviality and caviar. Then last week it was back to the burdens...
...Music Hall was, in effect, a world within itself, a tour de force of art deco dazzle and soaring ceilings that provoked awe and vertigo among the customers. The sheer quantitative excess of its palatial pretensions infected professional journalists with an even greater than normal addiction to statistical literature. Thus the tales of the Music Hall's Boswells are almost uniformly impacted with numbers purporting to measure every major, minor, relevant and irrelevant aspect of the plant. The printed record aches with such data as the number of miles of film projected yearly (5,000). the quantity...
This is the first leg of a presidential grand tour that will be resumed in March, when Carter visits Africa and South America. The four-continent odyssey originally was to have taken place in one installment last November, but it was postponed because Congress had not finished work on the energy bill. With the legislation still stalled in Congress, Carter decided to make the trip anyway, maintaining that this might somehow encourage a House-Senate conference committee to speed up work on the bill after its members return from vacation...
...more expectable decision. Carter named James T. Mclntyre Jr. his onetime budget director in Georgia, as head of the Federal Office of Management and Budget, succeeding Bert Lance (see story page 45). Thus the President completed his economic team on the eve of his departure for a seven-nation tour...
Carter is beginning to "pull together" his foreign policy, which until now has been unsuccessful, Neustadt said. Wilson, on the other hand, called Carter's foreign policy "confused." Wilson said Carter's recent foreign tour was a "publicity stunt...