Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining room. Then they are gently led off to Municipal Stadium-for the execution...
...Most studios look like collections of local airport hangars. Universal City is full of ivy-covered cottages and real grass. Visitors can go through Doris Day's dressing room and peek into her closet, which contains everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building, the post office...
Through the mercenary auspices of such as Consul Smith, and the thousands of Englishmen who discovered Italy on the Grand Tour, the masters of Florence and Venice built the base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated...
While West German officials watched nervously, Jordan's King Hussein recently sped round and round a Stuttgart test track in a Mercedes 230 SL sports car, so enthralled that he refused to continue his tour of a nearby assembly plant. The products of Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz A.G. have proved irresistible not only to Hussein but to enough other kings and commoners to make Daimler Europe's third-ranked automaker and the Continent's biggest manufacturer of trucks and buses. Half the "big" cars-with engines larger than 1.7 liters-and half the trucks on German...
...first of all to become a man." His father, who was a music professor, indulged him with a tolerance far in advance of the times. In the next four years, his family picked up the tab for drawing classes in Munich, "May wine orgies" with the models, a tour of Italy, and conscience payments to a pregnant mistress...