Word: chancier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rumor Service. Getting there was becoming ever chancier, as the ARVN collapsed before the Communist onslaught. Some newsmen in Saigon were able to buy their way onto a handful of small planes. Others had to be content with piecing together accounts of the war from eyewitnesses, press briefings (including weekly sessions conducted by the Viet Cong in Saigon under the terms of the Paris accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged...
...annual salary claimed by 50% of the U.S. tourists abroad this summer-although this includes the horde of students who are wandering the Continent. With round-trip charter fares to London sometimes under $200, it can be cheaper for Americans to vacation abroad than at home. It can be chancier as well. This month Cincinnati's World Academy charter service stranded 3,500 students in Europe when it suddenly went bankrupt...