Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert A. Taft and the townspeople of Ottawa, Ohio (pop. 2,400) had a date to meet one night this week in the county courthouse. It was something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state. Election day was still nearly a year away, but Taft was taking no chances, knowing that organized labor planned to spend millions in an effort to oust him from the U.S. Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through...
When shrewd, peppery President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla made up his mind last month that Chile must devalue the peso, he knew he would have to blitz his country into going along with him. He promptly set out on a fire-eating tour of the country, in which he made faces at all his political enemies-and scarcely mentioned the peso...
...knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would be to hold down prices firmly enough for the plan to work...
...first Experiment group to Israel will fly to Jerusalem to live with families there for two weeks. The following two weeks will be spent working on a cooperative farm; then the group returns to its "families" for another week and concludes the second month with a tour of northern and southern Israel. Exceptionally good physical condition is a pre-requisite of this trip, and preference for membership will be given to non-Jewish students...
...program for each tour is arranged by students from the countries visited, who will travel with the participants and conduct the tours. Free time is included in every trip in order to permit the travelers to see and do whatever they want...