Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into A. Yesterday the jeep broke down. It took a day to fix. Today I gave a speech to the assembled population. I held up the start for 15 minutes insisting that the women come too, but in the end only a dozen showed up. Afterwards I made the tour of the village with the local sanitation committee, a collection of ragamuffin types. Tonight I did my dish-washing act before a small group of women. Afterwards they asked questions about household work, and the caring for kids. I didn't know the answers but I faked...
September 4--I wonder if the Volunteers who do this work full time feel, continously, the boredom, discouragement, apathy and alienation I feel in this village? I find I'm sleeping about 11 hours a day. We tour the village for an hour and a half every morning and night. Aside from that--nothing. On the rare occasions when I hear two people in the village speaking French I have a leap of recognition and pleasure, as if it were my native language...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan" shows the Duke on his memorable three-week tour of Japan in 1964. Repeat...
...climbed into his 310-h.p. speedboat and drove it in wide, churning circles, occasionally revving the engine so high that the boat all but sat on its stern. Next day he entertained 150 members of the Texas Explorers Club, got into his white Lincoln convertible and exuberantly led a tour of the land around the L.B.J. Ranch. Every day he walked between two and four miles. When he was not on the move, the President lounged by the ranch swimming pool, thumbing through extracurricular books (Dean Acheson's memoirs, a biography of Sam Houston) or working on official business...
...trip will mark the first time that girls have participated in an American college singing tour of Asia. "This will be another first for Harvard," said Peter M. Black '66, president of the Harvard Glee Club...