Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
Reston arrived in Moscow hoping for a rational, civilized tour d'horizon- and found himself face to face with a fishwifely propaganda harangue. "It seems, sir, both you and we are expecting some big news from up there tonight," began Reston vaguely enough. "What do you call 'Up there?' " snapped Kosygin. "Do you mean from God?" Reston only meant space shots-the U.S. Gemini 7 and the Soviet Luna 8-but the mood had been struck. Despite Reston's attempts at ingratiation ("I agree . . ." "I was certainly not suggesting . . ."), Kosygin laid out a rehash of anti...
...cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers died immediately, including James Driscoll, 20, a Peace Corps volunteer from Buffalo, N.Y., who had already served 16 months in Togo and had signed up for a second tour of duty. At least 300 people were injured, including four Peace Corps girls. The truck drivers ran away, but were later arrested...
Stiff Exam. Since he was only 15 when he graduated from Exeter, his parents decided to take him and his younger brother Tom (now a historian-researcher for the Colonial Williamsburg restoration project) on a yearlong tour of the world. On his return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral...
...White House tour only reinforced his confusion theory. "Nothing in my recent experience has been more chastening," he wrote, "than the attempt to penetrate into the process of decision. I shudder a little when I think how confidently I have analyzed decisions in the ages of Jackson and Roosevelt, traced influence, assigned motives, evaluated roles, allocated responsibilities and, in short, transformed a disheveled and murky evolution into a tidy and ordered transaction...