Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Home Abroad. Keynote of the new program was that the building should be modern but related to the culture and style of the country in which it was to be built. Designers were expected to travel to the sites, familiarize themselves with the climate and customs, local construction methods and materials. The results were dramatic. Under the impact of foreign cultures, many architects were inspired to new departures from modern architecture's dogmatic restraints, evolved a host of lively new concepts to create buildings that are graciously at home in the community, friendly and yet dignified...
Cambridge, by contrast, is cleaner, quieter, and usually a more pleasant place to live. But in spite of all the little diversions of the summer, it can get pretty dull. Even if it only to see a movie or to ramble around Scollay, you should travel those eight minutes to Park Street and take a look at Hell.The lovely banks of the Charles...
...Louis Post-Dispatch lumps its travel section under the catchall division, "Promotion News," and uses great gobs of free publicity copy. Stanton Delaplane, whose travel column is syndicated even more widely than Horace Sutton's, insists on paying his own hotel bills-but demands a 25% commercial discount in the U.S. A CAB ruling prohibits airlines from letting newsmen fly free on scheduled flights, but some travel editors evade the ruling by selling "reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better...
...travel writers defend freeloading on the ground that it is a well-established journalistic practice. Says Horace Sutton: "Since when have you seen a theater critic like Brooks Atkinson scrambling in line to buy a seat for the second balcony?" Sutton, with far more justification than most, maintains that no one tells him what to write. But others of his genre admit to an abiding fact of the travel editor's life. "Half of my job is public relations," says the San Francisco Chronicle's Polly Noyes. "Even for the agencies I don't like...
...will be studied by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. under government contract. Vehicle, an enlarged ICBM nose cone with fins, directed by an inertial guidance system, would reenter the earth's atmosphere in glide, travel 75 miles above the earth for long distance until it gradually drops down to be recovered. If Pentagon approves study, device would be built in about two years at an estimated cost of $75-$100 million...