Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Lodge was scheduled to make an inspection trip to South Viet Nam with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; he will not take over the embassy formally until mid-August. When he does, he will find that things have changed since his first tour of duty. When he left Saigon on June 29, 1964, Major General Nguyen Khanh was Premier; since then, there have been six changes of government, and the current incumbent is Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, whom Lodge has never met. Moreover, at the time of Lodge's 1964 leavetaking, there were 16,000 U.S. servicemen...
...Summer School will sponsor a bus tour of historic and modern Boston on Saturday, July 17th, at 2 p.m. The tour will include such sites as Old North Church, the Paul Revere House, the Navy Yard and "Old Iron-sides." The cost will be $2.25. Those who are interested should sign up in Matthews 4 by Wednesday, July 14th...
Young Pianos. A perfectionist with a penchant for turtleneck pullovers and gold-tipped Turkish cigarettes, Michelangeli has made only a few recordings because he has "never quite been satisfied with the quality of the sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn...
...routine scarcely varies from crooner to crooner. After the bouncy, wake-up opening number and the tender love ballad, he takes his portable microphone on a teaser tour of the stageside tables, establishing the all-important "eye contact" with the ladies. Highlight of the mingle-with-the-matrons sequence is when he takes the hand of a giggling patron, drops to one knee and breathes Come to Me, Bend to Me, always climaxed by a buss on the cheek. This gives way to cozy time, in which the crooner mounts a stool to sing a round of songs categorized either...
Married. Jane Powell, 36, Hollywood's Baby Jane of the 1950s (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), now on the nightclub circuit; and James D. Fitzgerald, 33, her onetime business manager; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sydney, Australia, where she is on a singing tour...