Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador, he replaces Career Diplomat Murat Williams, 50, whose four-year tour of duty rates as one of the more successful U.S. diplomatic efforts in Latin America in terms of general economic and political progress under the Alliance. Inheriting a sound relationship, perhaps the new man can even make his name work to advantage. To knock the U.S. now, leftist Salvadorans will also have to knock Castro...
...Succeed in Business, etc. (which the French translate as Comment Reussir en Affaires) will thus have stayed with the show longer than any star in musical history. But in October he resigns to depart with his fourth wife, Eleanor (whom he married in 1949), for a nightclub tour. Why so faithful to show biz? Proudly displaying his four French poodles, Pom Pom, Jolie, Michelle and Pitou, Vallee vows the real reason is "I have four hungry dogs to feed...
Last week Rauschenberg was with the ballet in Stockholm, halfway through a six-month world tour. He revisited a collage combine door that he gave the Swedish Museum of Art in 1961, and was pleased to find it in good repair-down to the last bottle cap and bread crumb. When the tour is over, he should find a nearly bare studio in Manhattan, since he asked a friend to throw out all the silk screens he made before leaving. "Art shouldn't be a pillow you can fall asleep on," says Rauschenberg, who makes art out of pillows...
Well Connected. Powering A.E.P.'s drive is President Donald Cook, 55, a financial expert who also has a lively interest in sales, technology, law and government. He works at his job ten hours a day in his Manhattan office and another three hours at home, frequently tours his bailiwick; last week he was off on a Cook's tour of facilities in Indiana and Virginia. An ardent advocate of private power, he believes that cutting costs and passing the savings on to consumers is a form of public service. As it happens, he is also well connected...
Journalist Gunther, who wrote two best-forgotten novels when he was Mason Jarrett's age, has yearned for years to bring off a fictional tour de force. This is not it, though it is sometimes absorbing when it approaches the factual memoir of vintage Vienna that he might have written instead-and still should. As Gunther himself put it some years ago, "How can you write about boy meets girl when you had Hitler and Mussolini next door...