Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between klong calling and baby bussing, Humphrey worked hard and happily at the serious business of representing his Government on the impromptu, nine-nation, 41,000-mile tour that Lyndon Johnson decreed as a fitting epilogue to the strategy conference in Hawaii. The Vice President carried it off with verve and style...
Denmark's King Frederik gave her a robust goodbye buss at the airport, and off flew Daisy on the first leg of her seven-week Latin American good-will tour. Stopping for a day in Manhattan, the lass submitted to a press conference at the Danish Consulate, where reporters started asking whom she's been dating lately. "That's a bit of an odd question," she sniffed. There were other nosy queries, but at last they were done and the searing TV lights went off. Gasped Daisy, better known as Princess Margrethe, 25, who will some...
...pocket. Looking like the fiercest shark in the pool, Nobel Prizewinner Martin Luther King Jr., 37, was making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
A.V.N. has no plans to organize outside of Georgia, but its leaders have been invited by the South Viet Nam government to visit Viet Nam over the Easter vacation, and they expect to explain their views on the war on a world tour this summer. "You just can't have the people on the negative side making all the noise," insists Sutton. How about all the time already lost from classes? Argues A.V.N. Organizer Wayne Wood: "We are lucky enough to be in college, and this is the least we can do. I can give up my grades...
...soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when he was playing with more fire than accuracy...