Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. U.S. Director James Ivory takes a wry, wistful look at fading British influence in India while ostensibly concerned with a love triangle that disrupts an English Shakespearean troupe on tour...
...band was in full swing, and 50 people kept two bartenders in constant motion. Gambling? In East Chicago, there are poker games almost any night upstairs over the Nu-Oriental Restaurant, and poker, pinball and betting on the horses at Forsythe Billiards. For a full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting fireman can stop in Hammond (some gambling and prostitution), Whiting (gambling), or Griffith, where the favorite form of recreation is "Lucky 7s" and "Triple 50s," in which the player puts a quarter or half-dollar into a jar, receives a numbered slip, then waits hopefully...
Ever since travelers started traveling, they have been telling others how and where to do it. Herodotus in 450 B.C. described the wonders of the Nile, where the natives worshiped crocodiles and shaved off their eyebrows when their cats died. Mark Twain, who made the Grand Tour a century ago, wrote delightedly of the cheapness of Moroccan currency ("I bought nearly half a pint of their money for a shilling"). The package tour, credit cards and 21-day-excursion jet fares have made the wonders of the Nile less wondrous and even Moroccan currency a lot less cheap...
...bookstores now stock at least 50 guides to European countries, regions and cities which, despite the growing lure of Asia and North Africa, remain America's favorite tourist areas. There are also shopping guides, money guides and no-money guides; at least five paperbacks tell how to tour the Continent on the cheap. The Rich Man's Guide to Europe is due out next month, and there is already one guidebook instructing executives on how to do business in Europe while living it up on the expense account (Paris starting point: royal suite at the Hotel George...
...fifth year with the Harvard Glee Club, Epps is Assistant Conductor and a magnificent first tenor. But only last year, activity in the Glee Club led to an ugly incident while the Club was on tour in the South. Epps, one of the best singers in the Glee Club, was scheduled as one of eight members to perform over a Southern TV station. The management of the station refused to let Epps sing, and Epps quite legitimately cried discrimination. But his musical penchant has had a brighter side also, and Epps is advisor of the Leverett House Opera Society which...