Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he volunteered for another tour of duty last December and refused to take a leave during the first 15 months he was in Viet Nam, Big Bear Bloomquist admits: "I've been here too long." Why does he stay? "Because," he explains slowly, "I like the excitement. And because I think that my crew and I can do this job better than anyone else. It's the job that counts above all, and it's a job that somebody...
HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...
...advertised as the general's final provincial tour before next winter's presidential elections, and though he has so far refused to say whether he will run or not, De Gaulle looked and sounded very much the compleat candidate. He was also in imperial form. At Provins, the mayor, who happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle...
Having been browbeaten by French farm deadlines for so long, the other five were astounded and even outraged. Snapped Hallstein: "The obstinate maintaining of divisive internal antagonisms could make Europe the Balkans of the world." It was nonetheless a diplomatic tour de force-the one French response no one had anticipated. Even more, it was a reminder of how bitterly De Gaulle will resist creeping supranationalism. Resisting the Eurocrats' push for unity by delaying the farm plan will cost France and its farmers at least $1 billion between...
...economic czar, first as head of the National bank and later as Minister of Industries, put him in charge of exporting Castroite subversion throughout Latin America, sent him on trips abroad to beat the drums for Communist revolution. Che's latest trip was a three-month propaganda tour through nine African and Asian nations, including seven days in Red China. He returned to Havana on March 14 - and has not been seen since. Now Castrologists around the world are asking: What ever became...