Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Look! It's Bob Hope!" cried one canal dweller as the aquatic parade set houseboats arocking on a Bangkok klong. Well, almost. On his far-flung tour of the Far East last week, Hubert Horatio Humphrey everywhere displayed his infectious euphoria, dispensed pharmaceutical advice and ad-libbed some passable one-liners. Before leaving South Viet Nam, he was invited by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu to come back and hunt an elephant some time. "I spend most of my time at home," replied Humphrey, "hunting elephants...
...Francisco, Seattle, San Simeon, Yosemite and Los Angeles are some of the stops on this tour guided by the likes of William Saroyan, Willie Mays, Pierre Salinger, Francis X. Bushman and Lee Remick...
...conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents interviewed and wrote during the entire trip back to Saigon; Cook then peeled off to accompany Vice President Hubert Humphrey on his Vietnamese tour...
...hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot was in charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there, Ky jumped to his first look at the U.S. -six months at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Field, Ala. Brief as it was, the tour permitted Ky to learn colloquial English and, says Lodge semifacetiously, "read the newspapers every day and learn what Americans are all about." Within five years of his return to Saigon, Ky was a major military figure-and commander of the entire South Vietnamese air force...
...obstacle to Blake's election was potential opposition from the influential delegates of Orthodox churches behind the Iron Curtain. Although Blake is well liked by the Orthodox -he led a pioneering team of U.S. church men to Moscow in 1956, and three years ago helped arrange a U.S. tour by representatives of the Russian patriarchate- the council officers feared that Russian delegates might be under governmental pressure to vote against an American. Discreetly assured that this was not so, a special nominating committee of the council then went ahead to propose Blake...