Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky's Democratic Governor; seven years later they peddled the chain to Heublein Inc. for an estimated $287 million in stock. Sanders, who stayed on at KFC Corp. as a $125,000-a-year consultant, never lost his sizzle. On occasion he would tour a KFC franchise and, if dissatisfied, tell newsmen that, say, the mashed potatoes tasted like "wallpaper paste...
...still in service, but a new version of the old bird, called the TR-1, is about to rise out of a mysterious Lockheed facility that produces supersecret military hardware for the Air Force Logistics Command. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, the first reporter ever to tour the plant, filed this account...
...wooden arches set incongruously near downtown San Francisco, Chicago and New York. The arches have been beckoning passers-by to the first traveling trade show of the People's Republic of China in the U.S. The exhibit opened last week in Manhattan for the capstone stop of its tour. Now that dancers, diplomats and musicians have exchanged visits, China and the U.S. are getting close-up looks at each other's products at trade fairs in the two countries...
...typical of Toomey that he explains more than he describes. He can be an amusing and sympathetic guide in this packaged tour de force, but readers who want true literary adventure should turn back to that great confabulator, Charles Kinbote, the deranged scholar-poet of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire...
...articles such as "China's Third Steel Base Starts Producing." Since his first visit to the United States--he arrived on a slow boat from China with $25 in his pocket--Zhao has written about everything from the "Three Anti's" Campaign to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent tour--in short, almost anything a Chinese journalist of the past 20 years could observe...