Word: toure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayslack's lounge was just one stop on the Glee Club's North American tour last summer, a tour that celebrated the group's 120th anniversary. Club members were also saying farewell to their conductor of the past eight years, F. John Adams. In a controversial decision, the position of director of choral activities had been passed to Jameson M. Marvin, former director of choral activities at Vassar College. The transition leaves the Glee Club troubled, as senior members try to guide the group through a difficult passage...
Hanoi also claimed that it had firm evidence of Peking's long planning for the invasion. Newsmen based in the capital, taken on a guided tour of the front, were shown printed Vietnamese phrase books found on the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. Among other things, the eight-page pamphlets contained instructions to be given Vietnamese prisoners ("You will be taken to a safe place and allowed to rest ... Don't worry. Your wound will be treated immediately...
...Tour skiing is safer than downhill skiing and far easier to learn. Once the novice has mastered the gliding-stride motion (not unlike Groucho Marx's fluid slouch), the other skills, like the herringbone (a method of walking uphill) and the telemark (a way of turning) can be learned by simple trial and error...
Problems of state? Not at all, as Queen Elizabeth II, on the first leg of her three-week tour of Arab Gulf states, paused to chat with the Emir of Bahrain, Sheik Isa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...That's what we thought we were getting all along from Sophia Loren, of course, but now she has told all to Writer A.E. Hotchner in Sophia: Living and Loving (Morrow; $9.95). Or nearly all. In Manhattan last week, at the beginning of a six-city U.S. promotion tour, Sophia shrugged off reports that Peter Sellers, who had starred with her in The Millionairess, was upset about not being cited as one of her loves. "I only wrote about things that were important to me," she replied, scarcely batting one of those magnificent green eyes. "Cary Grant was important...