Word: tours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was plainly reaching for political respectability. Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour. Before Austin left the Dominican Republic, the 400-year-old University of Santo Domingo gave him an honorary degree...
...exhibition was sponsored by an Independence, Mo. art patron and good friend of Harry Truman named Blevins Davis, who had been impressed by contemporary German painting while on a tour last summer. Confined to artists under 40, it offered top prizes of $1,000 and $700, plus trips to the U.S., Rome and Paris, drew 3,600 entries. A ten-man inter national jury had hung only 175 of the canvases submitted, but prune as they would, they could not rid the show of its generally sterile atmosphere...
...world's best pottery-makers turned up in Washington last week to begin a lecture and demonstration tour that will take him to 15 cities in the U.S. and Canada. He was Bernard Leach, 63, a spare, tweedy, Hong Kong-born English man who described himself as "a sort of courier between East & West." Leach was certainly well equipped to acquaint U.S. potters with oriental standards and tricks of their trade. He had studied painting in London, gone to To kyo at 21 to teach it. "I had no idea of taking up pottery," he recalls, "but in Japan...
...sedately married London psychiatrist who goes off his rocker over a flighty, glamorous divorcee (Margaret Leighton). His devoted wife, played by Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson, introduces them, goes conveniently off to her mother's place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...
...Wolontis, who has just returned from a tour of student centers in Southwest Asia, said that although America supplies most of the actual reconstruction materials, the United States would receive definite benefits from the rehabilitation of foreign schools...