Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After dropping out of high school at 17, Randi joined a traveling carnival. On tour, he wore a turban and a beard, was billed as Prince Ibis, did a mind- reading act and supervised a "ten-in-one," carny talk for ten attractions under one tent. Among the features, Randi recalls, were Kong Lee, the electric boy, and the 10-ft. indigo snake ("It was only six feet, but who counts...
...view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Cappadocia, the eerie area in Central Anatolia where thousands of monks lived in conical towers of rock during the early Christian period, 22 tourist...
...violator of human rights. But Cuba denies U.S. charges that it holds several thousand political prisoners and that some are being kept in dungeon-like jails and have been tortured. Last week a five-member panel from the International Committee of the Red Cross began a month-long inspection tour of 15 prisons, the first time the organization has been given permission to make such an investigation. The group's first stop was the Boniato jail, where the investigators reportedly found no plantados, the counterrevolutionaries who allegedly have come in for harsh treatment because they refuse rehabilitation...
...with us" because structural maintenance problems were designated to other University agencies; staff said they forwarded the notice to Facilities Maintenance at the time. However, earlier this year Carpenter officials did authorize placement of chicken-wire mesh around the site of the April accident when a tour group of small children visited the center...
Tarver plans to spend the next year or two in Boston and on tour with the band, but he does not see himself headed for rock stardom. "It's not an attempt to try to make it in the music business," he says. "But I want to do it as well and as seriously as I can. Not being in school will give me a chance to concentrate on doing music really well...