Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Reagan went to New York City to launch his presidential drive at a dinner in Manhattan, Stacks was unable to attend because of a previous engagement: he had flown to Des Moines for three days of watching George Bush beat the bushes in Iowa. Despite all the arduous travel involved, Stacks takes special pleasure in campaign reporting. "Politicians are sometimes silly, sometimes banal, frequently self-serving and occasionally absolutely unbearable," he says. "But they are just as often earnest, serious and creative in proposing solutions to the problems the nation faces. In an election year, there is no better...
...memo suggests that Ford might increase profits by loading well-selling models like the subcompact Fiesta and Courier minitruck with expensive options that customers would be forced to accept, and putting on less costly tires. Ford is also attacking internal costs by cutting executive business travel by 50% and symbolically dropping free coffee at company business events and eliminating all magazine subscriptions...
...airlines were hotels, most of them would be out of business. This familiar plaint of the frequent passenger was quantified last week with publication of a 1980 travel guide assembled by Egon Ronay, one of Britain's most acerbic critics of pretentious food and sloppy service. For the first time in its 22 years, Ronay's Lucas Guide (Penguin; $9.95) goes beyond its customary survey of British restaurants and inns to rate-and berate-14 Britain-to-North America carriers. Some of them may want to head for the nearest cloud...
...goes to "the smiling Irish eyes" of Aer Lingus' stewardesses, though the non-Hibernian meals would be rejected at the lowliest Dublin pub. The guide also has high praise for Sir Freddie Laker and his pioneering, price-cutting Skytrain, "the most exciting development on the hitherto complacent transatlantic travel scene." The crews are smart and thoughtful, the meals attractively priced. "But, alas," reports Ronay, "it's the familiar story of dry meat, tasteless, watery vegetables, gray potatoes or a new horror, rubbery scrolls of pasta (and eaten with plastic cutlery at that...
...Dorado has materialized in the U.S. Last week more than 500 objects of Colombian gold went on exhibit at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Most of these treasures-which next year will travel to Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans-come from Bogotá's Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), which has collected some 26,000 ancient gold pieces, often buying them up from guaqueros (professional tomb robbers) who otherwise would probably sell them to foreign collectors...