Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Richard Nixon, for example), he was untouched by the Depression and unaware, except through reading and conversations, of the traumatic effect it had on the U.S. His Catholic father insisted on a secular education for him, and Jack went to Choate, Harvard and the London School of Economics. Extensive travel in Europe, a wartime hitch as skipper of a Navy FT boat (his brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, died in an air explosion over the English Coast), a brief turn as a Hearst correspondent gave him a kaleidoscopic political, international and economic background. By the time he decided...
...Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from a visit to Denmark, Elizabeth had no such protection as she jetted along near the West German-Dutch border at a 35,000-ft. altitude. The Queen missed...
...waves of Western tourists to Russia. Now comes a Soviet fear that even in the process of learning English, Russian youngsters may be subtly corrupted. The result is reported in the current Columbia University Forum by Stephen Viederman, deputy chairman of the U.S.'s Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants. Where Russia's English texts once merely gushed over the joys of Soviet life, they have now been revised to ensure that students get high Marx by mastering such tidbits as lynching tales from the Daily Worker and the dolorous strike scenes painted by Novelist Theodore (An American...
...mostly blurred faces. The trouble is that when the whirling stops, the faces are still blurred and the conversation still pointless-jointless. A happy solution has occurred to Author Kerouac; he has written a volume in which the whirling is continuous and the characters negligible - in other words, a travel book...
Participants in the program, "Cross-roads Africa," will travel to ten different African countries and help construct schools, roads, churches, and maternity centers. Last summer students of both sexes from the United States, Canada, and South America participated...