Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Two children of American embassy officials show what life is like for 150 American youngsters living in Moscow. They tour the American embassy, Red Square and the Kremlin Palace, and they discuss their frequently lonely existence in a strange and sometimes hostile land...
...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Readers get a guided economy tour of the night life of H. C. Earwicker, mightiest of Irish dreamers, whose nocturnal visions embrace all human history, from the fall of man to Judgment Day. A gifted novelist and linguist, Burgess plays a lively Virgil to the Dublin Dante...
...interviews, Harry was exhaustive -and exhausting. One of his close associates remembers a three-month tour of Europe, on which "we saw everyone of any account, politically, in six countries. At the end of it, Harry had gained six pounds and I had lost ten. After one three-hour discussion-in-depth with an editor of L'Osservatore Romano, our Rome correspondent, who had been doing the interpreting, turned toward me and fainted flat on the floor. Before I got a shot of Scotch into him, Harry was back in the room, saying: 'Well, it's only...
With a Thud. The top candidates for the top job were all there except New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who insists that he does not want the job anyway. Richard Nixon, who was to leave this week on a three-week European tour, got in some last-minute politicking, shaking every hand in sight. Illinois' Freshman Senator Chuck Percy was busily huddling and helloing. But the cynosures were Michigan's Governor George Romney and California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who were scheduled to speak for three minutes each...
Those who listen closely cannot fail to observe that the difficulties cited most frequently on the questionnaires given to corpsmen at the end of their tour of duty were "frustrating work experience" and "lack of activity of nationals in helping themselves...