Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Canton, Malraux went on to Peking and spent four days browsing in antique shops and visiting the Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven. There was also a three-hour chat with China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi; Malraux blandly called it a tour d'horizon that included cultural relations between the two countries. Next, the visitor was off to see the Lung-men Grottoes near Loyang, the archaeological finds at Sian, and finally, the cave-riddled mountains of Yenan where Mao Tse-tung set up his headquarters after the 6,000-mile Long March...
...Taylor ought to know: in his 13-month Vietnamese tour, he has seen the war go from bad to worse as the U.S. poured in more men and equipment, and as the Viet Cong chewed up battalion after battalion of South Vietnamese troops. To be sure, the U.S. ground force had little chance to do more than establish its defense perimeters during those hectic months; the Communists gained momentum by launching their own monsoonal drive. Since the onset of the summer rains two months ago, the stain of Red domination has spread swiftly (see map); the Communists now control...
...enough to dampen the homecoming. Nearly 500,000 cheering chilenos lined the nine-mile route from Los Cerrillos airport into downtown Santiago, waving their red, white and blue colors and chanting "Frei-Frei! Chile-Chile!" Smiling, tearful with gratitude, President Eduardo Frei was home after a 22-day goodwill tour through Italy, France, England and West Germany...
...taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta, in the colonies. So women hoarded snippets and swatches left over from dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit of historic counterpanes at New Jersey's Newark Museum (see opposite page), the very nature of quilting, whether applique or piecework, required fancy sewing, such as feather, catch, cross-and kensington stitching, that few seamstresses know today...
...most out of his time, he sleeps about one night a week on planes while traveling 300,000 miles a year. Even office parties do double duty: before the annual banquet for his 50-man staff and their wives-at a Tabler-designed hotel-there is always a tour from boilers to bedrooms, and a Tabler lecture on hotel techniques...