Word: chartering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Presidents, Chancellors, Premiers and Communist Party leaders assembled in Helsinki had just signed their names to the "Final Act," the 30,000-word charter approved at the European Security Conference (TIME, Aug. 11). There, with great ceremony, the green, leather-bound original copy was sealed away in a corrosion-proof metal vault 60 feet-about 20 meters-beneath the Finnish state archives...
...roster of complaints ranges from the trivial to the relatively serious: hotels on the road are rarely good enough; instead of charter flights after night games, players often have to grouse their way onto morning flights on scheduled airlines; no stamps are supplied for answering fan mail; torn pants and two-year-old shirts are handed out in the clubhouse; and there is no free telephone in the clubhouse for local calls. "The problem is simple," says one player. "Charlie Finley is the cheapest son of a bitch in baseball...
...bunch of spoiled brats. There isn't a phone in the clubhouse because it's against major league rules to have a phone so handy ?gamblers could call. We stay in the same hotels as other teams. I'm not paying $5,000 extra for a charter flight when the team is already going first class. If they want stamps, they can have as many as they need if they'll bring the mail up to the office. I know one thing. They're so selfish and lazy they won't answer any fan mail. Hell, there...
...appeal of rugged Rotel travel lies chiefly in its remarkably low cost. A month-long southern Africa tour costs only $1,500, for example, including the charter flight, and takes passengers 6,000 miles from Rhodesia through Mozambique to Capetown and up the west coast to Angola. A 30-day tour of the U.S. and Canada costs $1,600, also including air fare from Germany (it is not available to Americans because, say Rotel officials, they do not want to compete with U.S. travel operators). A highlight, according to company brochures, is Las Vegas, with "the world's most...
Free Champagne. More and more vacationers have whittled air fares by booking charter flights and package tours. Says Virginia Donohue, of Donohue Travel in Wilmette, Ill., "The only people going to Europe this year-and these are people who have been going to Europe since they were children, an don't buy tours-are coming in askin for charters and free information like where can they get a list of Irish farm houses where they can stay...