Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will tour Asia during the summer of 1967, Elliot Forbes '40, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music and choral director of both groups, announced yesterday...
Begging for Status. Born in Mississippi, where his mother ran a boardinghouse, Claiborne decided early in life that boardinghouse reach was not his preferred style of eating. After a hitch doing public-relations work for Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago and a tour of duty with the Navy during the Korean War, he enrolled for a year at the Swiss Hotelkeepers' Association school in Lausanne. It is, he insists, the best such school in the world, and he is proud of the fact that he finished eighth in a class of 60 in cooking, sixth...
...audiences last week had an opportunity to hear how successful Kondrashin has been, as the 112-member Moscow Philharmonic launched its first tour of the U.S. with a series of concerts in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Consensus: an uneven but promising orchestra of international rank. The Moscow brass and woodwinds were bright and full-throated, but the strings sounded thin and oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face...
...other ways to get potential customers to test-drive its products. The auto companies encourage local dealers (often with a $400 rebate) to lend new cars to high school driver-training programs, hoping to win the allegiance of teenagers, also push sales to company car fleets. Lincoln-Mercury executives tour the U.S. to talk about autos to such groups as Rotary Clubs and women's garden clubs, sometimes offer their audiences free use of new Mercurys for a week...
...still far from over. Independent gas suppliers are growing increasingly aggressive; some of them push their products by using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist...