Word: toure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Wall of China attracted record crowds during a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. On a "mission of mercy" to Chad, est Founder Werner Erhard urged natives to "take responsibility for your own starvation" and was promptly eaten. Alarmed at declining election turnouts, the Administration offered free toasters to anyone who voted. Congress made 1984 the Year of the Total Recall when it ordered the return of everything manufactured...
...four bodyguards to whisk her to safety in an elevator, where she calmly blew bubbles with her bubble gum. But the jostling aggravated an ailing leg, and Fawcett was forced to hobble on crutches to watch a contest selecting her Israeli lookalike. About the only hosts unhappy over her tour were some members of the diamond exchange in Tel Aviv, where normally frantic trading halted while the golden girl oohed over a 17-carat diamond worth $1.5 million. "She cost us a lot of money," growled one trader on the exchange...
...exiled Dalai Lama opens his U.S. tour - in a cathedral...
...seemed a splendid start for his first U.S. tour, which will take him to 22 cities in seven weeks. Though there was little advance publicity, the nave of St. Patrick's was filled to overflowing with a crowd in which young people were heavily represented. In the U.S. many people 30 and younger are drawn to Oriental religions that explore inner spiritual resources through meditative techniques. The Dalai Lama says he is particularly interested in meeting this "younger generation," and he plans to do some gentle evangelizing at campuses from Cambridge to Charlottesville to Ann Arbor to Berkeley...
...time the average class completes its four-year tour in Cambridge, a quarter of the men and about a third of the women will have visited the MHS. ("Women," Walters explains, "are more sensitive to interpersonal issues and more willing to ask for help.") While a lot of students have the notion that most MHS patients are counselled on a semi permanent basis, Walters says the majority of the cases his office handles are short-term and 'crisis"-oriented. The average student, Walters notes, "may see us in his junior year for three or four visits and then again briefly...