Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALL OF KINGS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). James Mason, Lynn Redgrave and Siobhan McKenna recall some of Britain's great men and women during their tour of Westminster Abbey...
...danger of assassi nation, spent the entire time in a secluded castle near Turin and never even got to Rome. That was in 1909, and Czar Nicholas II had plenty to fear from the Italian left. Last week, as So viet President Nikolai Podgorny began a week-long tour of Italy, the climate was different. Italy, after all, has the West's largest Communist Party (1,541,000 members), and one Italian in four votes Communist in national elections. Podgorny's route was punctuated by a few bomb blasts-including one that wrecked Rome's Communist headquarters...
...course, everybody on the pro tour concedes that Jack is "the longest accurate hitter in golf." But like all long hitters, Jack is also a high hitter, and it is a simple law of physics that the longer a golf ball stays airborne, the more it is affected by wind. The tournament draw put him at the ocean-side Cypress Point course next day- and there the wind was howling in off the Pacific at 40 m.p.h., bending flag sticks over until the tips touched the ground. Nicklaus double-bogied three straight holes in the wind, and groaned...
...Feet by Five Miles. Gunther makes an entertaining guide. He has a discerning eye for the arresting fact and the improbable statistic that not only sums up a complex situation but rivets the attention of the reader. Along his tour he notes that a farm in Chile, the beanpole country hugging 2,600 miles of the continent's west coast, can measure as little as ten feet in width and five miles in length. Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy...
...Focus. Such tidbits illuminate a subject; they do not necessarily explain it. In grappling with the riddle of South America, a continent that was colonized half a century before North America and is still trying to catch up with modern times, Tour Guide Gunther sometimes finds the going rough. He often relies on sweeping generalities ("few South Americans have ulcers"), on superlatives (Colombia is "one of the most difficult, complex and contradictory countries in the world"), and there are some oversimplifications that sometimes border on the absurd. "Why is the army so important?" he asks of Brazil. Gunther...