Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Westmoreland, 54, was long overdue for a new assignment. Though most fighting men are rotated home after a year's tour of duty, he has been on the job for more than four years, and since June 1964 has served as commander of all U.S. forces in Viet Nam. Still, the timing of the announcement, less than a week after Senator Robert Kennedy had entered the presidential race on an antiwar platform, lent more than a little credence to speculation that the President might be contemplating a change in Viet Nam policy-or else had taken the opportunity...
...stepped up their activities; on the weekend before Israel's retaliatory thrust, they had made six attacks, ranging from outright firefights to a bomb set off in Jerusalem. In the worst incident, they blew up a bus carrying the children of government workers on a tour of the remains of King Solomon's mines near Elath, killing two adults and wounding 28 of the 44 children on board...
...passionate possessors snap up everything from Chinese vases to French furniture, but the biggest and bounciest collections are those of contemporary art. Fanciers of today's -and tomorrow's-painting, sculpture, kinetics and whole environments wade into galleries with eyes, minds and checkbooks wide open. As a tour of Chicago's top half-dozen dazzling collections shows, a new generation of collectors, many of whom are self-made millionaires, are brashly pitting their taste and understanding of today's baffling art trends against the judgment of the future and backing their hunches to the hilt. Nothing...
During his World War II tour of duty in France, he reminisces, he looked up Pablo Picasso in Paris. Picasso offered to let him pick out a picture, so Mayer did. It turned out to be by one of Picasso's students (the master let him choose a second). Today, Mayer lets dealers do most of the picking. But his infectious enthusiasm has made modern-art converts out of several of his neighbors. Even the Mayers' butler now assembles collages from bow ties and false teeth, which Mayer hangs along with his Oldenburgs and Tingue...
...Neumann goes about making his selections. Even among art dealers, he is known for the hard bargains he drives rather than for esthetic likes or dislikes. Despite Neumann's taciturnity, Picasso seems to have been taken with his company, and Sculptor George Segal took him on a tour of his plaster-castery. As far as Neumann is concerned, the secret of his success as a collector will remain just that. Says he elliptically: "The works collected me. I didn't collect them...