Word: toured
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ACCION is older than the Peace Corps--by six months. It was founded in 1960 by Joseph Blatchford, who conceived the idea while on a goodwill tour of South America as the captain of the University of California tennis team. According to Blatchford, he felt the need to start a community development group after Vice President Nixon was attacked in his limousine by mobs in Caracas. Although ACCION has helped reverse the tide of militant anti-Americanism, it is possible that Nixon would be attacked again today if he showed his face in Caracas...
...SURPRISING MIDDLEWEST (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Massachusetts-born Robert Preston guides a tour through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan in this series of specials on regions of the U.S. Some of the scheduled participants: Jazzman Dave Brubeck, Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi, Repertory Theater Head Tyrone Guthrie and Architect Bertram Goldberg...
Factory of National Fibre. Churchill was traveling through the U.S. on a lecture tour, and he found the atmosphere at the University of Michigan less than congenial. While defending British colonial wars, he was hooted and hissed by the students; afterward, he beat an uncharacteristic retreat. Most of the boisterously anti-imperialist student body were happy to see him go. But Gustavus Ohlinger, a cub reporter for the campus magazine, thought his fellow newsman was worth a story. He trailed Churchill to his hotel, talked his way past an aide, and asked for an interview. Churchill ordered two bottles...
...constantly since he was eight, now ranks as a fifth Dan professional (ninth Dan is highest) in his native Japan, where Go has been the national indoor game for as long as anybody can remember. Besides, this time was really only a warmup: later, in his three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been a rout...
...varsity tennis team rolled over Brown yesterday, 8-1, at the Palmer Dixon Courts. The victory was the Crimson's fourth straight since its Southern tour...