Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by an expert tour guide who knows all the sights and sounds but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly...
From 1957 to 1959, he put in his first tour of duty in Atlanta. His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service...
...with U.S. diplomacy, is now in the Algerian capital. Rangoon is still another possibility, particularly since U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant are scheduled to be there at the same time late this month. Goldberg plans to visit Rangoon during a tour of a dozen European and Asian nations, and while he insists that his trip is not "a peace mission," few who are familiar with his negotiating prowess would be surprised if he sought to contact North Vietnamese diplomats en route...
...time-compressor, simulating the length of the event through montage, though actually presenting it in a much shorter period of time. This forces him to be economic, to use editing to convey the scene content. He succeeds admirably; the blow-up sequence and the park scenes are tour de forces of film-making, achieving an exciting interaction of style and content...
...remarkably low for the number of troops involved." Only 1.5% of the U.S. troops have psychiatric complaints; the comparable rate in Korea was 6.6%, World War II 10.1%. Among the reasons: combat fatigue has been drastically reduced by the sporadic nature of the fighting and by the one-year tour of duty. The incidence of psychiatric disability seems to be highest at the beginning and near the end of the tour, says one Navy doctor, who notes that some men become "obsessed about the possibility of getting hit at the very last moment...