Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN WHITE PAPER-ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES (NBC, 7:30-11 p.m.).* Frank McGee will conduct the underworld tour, taking a look at the Prohibition raids of the '20s and continuing on through Murder Inc. of the '40s to the present day. Spliced in among the film clips in this 3½ -hour marathon will be interviews with local, state and federal officials and legislators, most notably Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Senators John McClellan, Edward Long and Robert Kennedy...
Goaded by criticism of his urban programs, Johnson announced on his tour further plans to establish neighborhood centers to serve slum dwellers, directed that the number of storefront legal offices in rundown areas be increased to protect tenants from rapacious landlords, and called for the creation of a commission to undertake the first broad review of municipal codes, zones and taxation since 1931. All this -and much more that is needed-will cost money, and Lyndon Johnson may be indulging in just a little bit of rain dancing to make city dwellers feel better. This time, though, some rain...
...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
...wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying," mumbled John Lennon. For a Beatle, that was an apology. John and his three shaggy sidekicks flew into Chicago to open their 18-day U.S. tour, more than a little apprehensive over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing...
...Streisand is quitting the stage temporarily. The baby that she refers to as "Kid" is due in December, after which she will report to Hollywood to begin filming Funny Girl. But before taking her maternity leave, Barbra had to say goodbye to her worshipers with a concert tour of stadiums in Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago...