Word: toure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polled in June and August, Ford came out ahead by eight percentage points. Today Carter would win 46% to 35% over his former opponent and carry all sections of the country. Carter would likewise beat Reagan, as he would have earlier this year; but perhaps because of his whirlwind tour on behalf of Republicans, Reagan is closing the gap. Those voters who call the tax-cut issue critical in their choice of candidates are less likely to support Carter over either Republican...
...establish the authority of the Sarkis government." But when the Lebanese President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour of six Arab capitals, Assad laconically submitted to an essentially meaningless compromise, under which part of the Syrian forces besieging East Beirut would be withdrawn. Lebanese troops would be allowed to help patrol the bridges linking Beirut to the Christian areas in the north - their first active role...
Interpreters, guides and Responsible Persons (i.e., bosses) have received the message: Be nice to our Foreign Friends; they are our guests. In the villages and factories and back streets that are visited without advance notice, the people are as warmly receptive as any on the scheduled tour. Only in these places, in small takes, can the visitor fight free of Instamatic Blur. He/she will not begin to understand China; even the Chinese do not profess to understand China. However, by osmosis and ingestion one can return home with vivid brush strokes on the mind...
...pharmacy in Kweilin dispenses a range of panaceas that includes ginseng cigarettes (for smoker's cough) and Male Silkworm Tonic (for impotence). At clinics in Shanghai, Wusih and Foshan, tour-weary Foreign Friends seek massage and acupuncture treatment for whatever ails them. Frances Aldridge of Key Biscayne, Fla., gets needles in her neck to assuage a pinched nerve. She swears it works. Her husband Frank takes acupuncture for an arthritic foot and thereafter climbs mountains without a cane. Their joint bill...
...deluxe way to go is by cruise ship. Aboard the trim (250 ft.), Swedish-operated M.S. Lindblad Explorer on a recent trip from Tokyo to Hong Kong were 103 single-class passengers paying about $3,500, two American Sinologists and three tour guides, led by Travel Entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad, known to the Chinese as Lin-bladder. The group included TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest and old China hands Photographer Carl Mydans and his reporter-wife Shelley...