Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record company brought out The Queen Elizabeth Foxtrot. In Bonn, 15,000 champagne glasses were ordered, and mobile lavatories were trundled in from Cologne for a state reception for 2,500 at Augustusburg Castle. It was all part of the feverish preparations for the eleven-day, 1,200-mile tour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of ten West German cities, the first state visit by a reigning British monarch since Edward VII paid his last call on Kaiser Wilhelm...
...dark rapture of his blues." Trouble is, nobody is listening-in the U.S., that is. But in Europe the message is echoing loud and clear: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, consisting of eleven young Negro dancers, has created perhaps the biggest sensation on the Continent since the tour of Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A. six years...
...Manhattan and appeared in several Broadway productions, finally saved enough to form his own small troupe. By 1961 the company had worked up to four concerts a year, "all the time losing money like mad." The State Department spotted it and in 1962 sent it on a successful tour of the Far East. Then came three months in Australia, where its appearance was hailed as "the most stark and devastating theater ever presented on the Australian stage...
...Since Barry Goldwater was visiting France recently on a gastronomic tour," began an acid article in Paris' Le Figaro Litteraire last week, "it is difficult to believe that he occupies the White House under the pseudonym of L. B. Johnson." But Barry might just as well be there, the weekly magazine complained: L.B.J. is the faithful executor of Goldwater's plans. The Times of London chimed in: "The U.S. is doing its best to appear as if it has reverted to the American colonialism of the 19th century...
...playing in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, among them, Bratislava's Beatmen and Prague's Hell Devils. Though the "disgusting dynamism" of big-beat music is officially deprecated in the U.S.S.R., a rock 'n' roll group from Jaroslaw is accompanied by an army of finger-snapping fans whenever it goes on tour...