Word: eurailpasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eurailpass gives unlimited first-class train travel in 15 European countries (not including Britain), 15 days to three months ($190 to $460), covers some lake, river and sea travel, with reduced rates on other transportation...
...corporate blow for economy-and togetherness. This week Eastern Air Lines, the aggressive carrier headed by ex-Astronaut Frank Borman, inaugurates a bargain fare that brings the concept of the fixed-price, go-anywhere Eurailpass to U.S. air travel. For no more than $323, a passenger can buy an "Unlimited Mileage" ticket that allows him up to 21 days of travel to any or all of 101 cities-excluding Canada-on Eastern's route map, which stretches from coast to coast and to Mexico City, Acapulco and twelve Caribbean islands. The only catch, aside from the fact that...
...that he was getting by on $3 a day or less. The pinchpenny ethic usually requires sleeping in youth hostels (from 65? to little more than $1 a night), hitchhiking and mooching meals from friendly Europeans. One compromise with comfort, however, is a money saver: a new category of Eurailpass for students 14 to 25 costs only $125 for two months' unlimited second-class travel and sleeping on trains. All together, 104,000 Eurailpasses were sold in 1970, and travel agents expect sales to rise by 45% this year...
There are times when Cavett envisions taking over The Tonight Show if Johnny Carson should ever retire. Then there are occasions when Dick feels like buying a long-term Eurailpass to oblivion. Running his show, he says, "is really like an actor being in repertory but where in one day?one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very...