Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each stop in the tour, the President used basically the same technique: a prepared speech putting forward one of his major campaign themes (responsibility in government, the capture of the Republican Party by extremists); a lavish dose of praise for the particular state he was visiting; and a standard ending about "the faces I saw on my way into town from the airport this afternoon" and "the problems I must consider when I return to my big desk in that lonely room in the White House tonight...
Liquor & Late Hours. In the early morning hours of the assassination day, nine of the 28 agents on the Kennedy tour committed what the Commission calls "a breach of discipline." Secret...
...Everyone at the White House agreed that a motorcade through Dallas would be the way to win maximum exposure. A lone dissenter, Texas Governor John Connally, argued that it would take too much time away from other appearances; he withdrew his objection when Kennedy decided to extend his Texas tour from one day, as originally planned...
...grande visite was at hand -Charles de Gaulle's much-heralded expedition to Latin America, a 27-day good-will tour covering 20,000 miles and ten nations. Paris papers hailed his "delirious welcome," and one writer even ventured to call him "our national conquistador." He was hardly that. The imposing old soldier was greeted with warmth, admiration, affection. Flattered Latin Americans listened with interest to his subtle talk of common origins and suggestions of a broad, transatlantic Latin bond. But it was clear that any dreams of a Latin Third Force - directed from Paris - were only dreams...
Teen-agers are not the only ones swooning over the Beatles. Businessmen are also getting giddy-and no wonder. The Beatles' second American tour, which ended last week, grossed $1,000,000. In only six weeks, their movie, A Hard Day's Night, has reaped $5,800,000 in U.S. rentals. Ten million Beatle records have been sold, and the group has just attained its third gold disk (each officially designating 1,000,000 sales for a single release) to surpass Elvis Presley's two. Last week Britain's Electric & Musical Industries, the world...