Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Korean torpedo boat bore down on Pueblo. Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, 40, was not overly disturbed. Harassment is one of the hazards of electronic snooping, and Skipper Bucher (pronounced booker) had expected to be buzzed by MIGS and bugged by surface craft when he began a month-long tour off the North Korean coast nearly two weeks earlier...
Bribes & Bootlegging. Kennedy's observations were based on an intensive, twelve-day tour of refugee camps and talks with hundreds of peasants and government officials. "Government jobs," said Kennedy, "are bought and paid for by people seeking a return on their investments. Police accept bribes. Officials and their wives run operations in the black market. Army vehicles are used for private purposes. Supplies disappear and show up in the bootleg stores on the street...
...potential is there with British Motor Holdings, but it's going to take a much tighter organization," said Sir Donald after he returned from a tour of his plants and dealerships last week. Soon some unprofitable lines will have to be dropped. And obviously, said Sir Donald, "we have to move toward the General Motors type of integration and more new models." But it will require heavy investment ($360 million, according to industry estimates) and perhaps three years before B.L.M. will be ready with its first new car. Between now and then, the newly merged company...
...story would make an operatic libretto in itself. The illegitimate child of a Finnish actor and a German actress, she was raised by her grandfather, an unconventional dabbler in voice and piano coaching, fiction, painting and sculpture. He trained her himself, and launched her at twelve on a concert tour. When she was 16, he allowed her to begin her apprenticeship in opera...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...