Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, though, the passengers displayed an amazing presence of mind. Martin Myers, a retired oil-company employee from Media, Pa., who was on a tour with fellow Lions Club members, found himself so impressed by Captain Kimes's calm-voiced announcement that he switched on his portable tape recorder, caught Second Officer Max Webb's emergency-landing instructions to the passengers: ". . . If we use the chutes, please stay calm. Remember, you will sit down to go out the chute. Don't panic . . . When we do land, and if it is a rough landing-which...
...profoundly influenced the way of life Down Under. Once stolid menus now offer Bratwurst and steak Bordelaise, Australian football stars have names like Ditterich and Silvagni, and Danish modern furniture comes all the way from Melbourne or Sydney. This week Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman returned from a six-week tour of Europe, jubilant at having signed new immigration treaties with Malta, as well as labor-short West Germany and The Netherlands...
After two years in the ideological doghouse, Russia's declamatory bard, Evgeny Evtushenko, 31, got back his traveling papers and poetic license, took off for a month's poetry-recital tour of Italy. And who should he find in Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made...
...long ago, going away for the summer was a privilege of the rich, and the oh-so-rich at that. Baedeker's United States, published in 1909, rated Bar Harbor and Newport as the two top resorts, and after that the Grand Tour was only a question of whether one preferred the Berkshires to Saratoga, White Sulphur to Hot Springs, or how long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were...
...Africa. Hoping to improve the climate for Japanese exports, the Japanese government plans to extend more than $9,000,000 in industrial development loans to the east African nations of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Last week it dispatched an eight-man mission of engineers on a month's tour of the three countries to study projects for which the loan funds might be used...