Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip was TIME'S News Tour of Asia, and it took 28 U.S. business and professional leaders to a crucial theater of world events. The purpose was to give the travelers-as concerned, responsible U.S. citizens-the best possible journalistic view of that theater, enabling them to seek information for themselves with the best facilities and from the best sources available to TIME...
...also sparked speculation that Maxwell Taylors days as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam are numbered. Taylor, of course, has been feuding openly with South Viet Nam's current leader, General Nguyen Khanh. Only last December President Johnson confided to an associate that he thought Taylor's tour of duty in Saigon might well end this spring: Taylor, he explained, has served the U.S. for many years, is tired, and wants a rest. Ironically enough, the deteriorating situation in Viet Nam has probably lengthened Taylor's tenure. For Johnson to recall him while he is under fire...
Precarious Trail. The tour itself went off like African clockwork. Delays were commonplace. Vast crowds surged around Elizabeth and Prince Philip as they were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where...
...Editor's Note: Here's a quick tour of New England ski sites, prepared by David C. Dionne, The Harbus's advertising manager and a native Vermonter familiar with the slopes of his region and how to get there...
...school is under the direction of Olympic Champion Penny Pitou and her husband Egon Zimmerman. Only 30 minutes from Boston via Routes 9 and 128 South, Blue Hills could be a convenient local practice slope as well as the first stop of a formal New England ski tour...