Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOPKAPI. Director Jules Dassin (Rififi) lightens larceny with laughter as Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov head a crook's tour of exotic Istanbul in pursuit of four fabulous emeralds...
...President remained happy throughout his tour, as he discovered the spectacular crowds mobilized by each group of local leaders. He showed his appreciation for their work by devoting more than a fair share of attention to the local workers at every stop. The welcomes were carefully planned and well-executed by his advance men; for example, instead of landing at the major Hartford airport, the mammoth United Aircraft plant in East Hartford, where he would have an automatic greeting from its several thousand employees...
Despite the huge time lag which may develop--he was three hours late by the end of his New England tour--the President insists upon stopping wherever there is a substantial number of people to shake hands. He reaches one hand over the other in order to shake the largest number possible. By the end of his New England trip, both the President's hands were bleeding--and they had been treated several times during the day. The unbounded enthusiasm of the crowd means that they will even claw the President's hand, if only they can get close enough...
...several stops on the New England tour, the Presidential party was astonished by a recurrence of the "jumpers" of President Kennedy's 1960 campaign. The squeals of delight from teenage girls often sounded as if it were The Beatles and not the President who had arrived in town. The mobs greeting the Presidential plane were so enthusiastic that they were often satisfied merely to shake the hand of the driver of the press bus--as long as it was someone "with" the President...
There is never any doubt during the President's campaign tour that he is running the show with an iron hand. When it semed that they would give him favorable coverage, the President invited the still photographers to come into his car in Hartford--but when he wanted the crowd to have clearer view of him, he bluntly ordered them out. And complying with his request, the photographers ruined the hood of the car behind his as they stepped onto...