Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter ace, Momyer has done so well at his job since he arrived in Viet Nam 18 months ago that President Johnson personally asked him to extend his tour of duty for at least another six months. Only last month, Momyer won his fourth general's star, and it was he who last week greeted Johnson on his surprise trip to Thailand and acted as host for the President's Christmas visit with U.S. pilots at Korat...
...side activities began with Yomiuri, in fact, after the paper's president, Matsutaro Shoriki, decided to bring Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that...
...avoided overdubbing and other wizardry of the recording studio, stuck to simple scoring (the Prunes, augmented only by cellos, French horns and various keyboard instruments) to make non-studio performances practical. Al ready several churches have bid for it; the Prunes plan to use it on an upcoming campus tour...
...Azores and North Africa, in Guadalcanal and London and Viet Nam. Last week, with a company that included Raquel Welch, Miss World (Madeleine Hartog-Bel), Singer Barbara McNair, Bing Crosby's son Phil and Bandleader Les Brown, Hope arrived in Bangkok for his fourth Viet Nam tour. No doubt there will be old soldiers who will tell him that they saw him in Bougainville in 1944 and youngsters who will say that their dads caught his act in Frankfurt. And no doubt Hope will quip that "I hope your grandfather didn't miss me at Appomattox...
...landing by a searchlight from a nearby mountain. After the performance ("Brace up, you're God's frozen people!"), Hope asked about the searchlight crew, pushed up to the outpost and performed a second show-for two lonely, grateful men. In 1963, just before his annual Christmas tour, Hope suffered a blood clot in his left eye. Doctors saved his sight with laser-beam surgery. While he was recuperating, his U.S.O. company went on without him to Ankara. Hope flew to Germany where an Air Force plane picked him up and ferried him to Turkey. "He looked like...