Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northeast's immediate problem, Johnson dispatched a "water-crisis team" headed by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to the five most parched cities-New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City, Camden, N.J.-with orders to "make hard and fast decisions on the spot to assist each affected community." During his tour, Udall warned New York Mayor Robert Wagner that his city was "on the edge of disaster." New York, is one of the nation's few major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson...
...Algiers, which was postponed two months ago when Ben Bella was toppled from power. The new target date now is Nov. 5, and Boumedienne is not at all sure how many African leaders will turn up. Last week his Foreign Minister, Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, was off on a recruiting tour of Africa's west coast. One of his first visits would be to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who could hardly be pleased by Algeria's sudden embargo on exported subversion. In fact, the Boumedienne regime was drawing fire from leftists all over the revolutionary lot. In Paris...
Collins has already announced that be will seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate of Leverett '14 (R-Mass). But a few other hopefuls are the nomination, too. One of these is the former Governor Endicott Peabody, who, as he left Friday for a "facting-finding." European tour, all but said that he wants to give Salty a contest. He also took a potshot at Collins - criticizing the North Harvard renewal plan as "an abuse of the purpose of urban renewal," suggesting that the land should be rehabilitated and "go to the people and not to just one property-owner...
Traveling fashion exhibits tour the mountains of Transylvania and other remote areas to bring the message to peasant crones in babushkas. Even in Bulgaria, the most retarded nation of the bloc, the party journal Partien Zhi-vot recently reasoned: "We must not lag behind the more advanced countries in being attractively attired. Foreigners judge the superiority of our socialist way of life not only from our factories, building programs and roads, but also from the outward appearance of our people...
...about in a small electric cart, making sure that workers use ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What he experienced did not sit well with Smith, who first began stamping out roof fittings on a press in his father's basement. Last week, in a controversy that vastly...