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Given a good bicycle, the investment needed to tour is small: $30 for a light-weight sleeping bag, $15 for cooking utensils and a stove, and $5 for miscellaneous supplies (the more exotic among us require a tent, but a sheet of polyethylene will do quite well). Obviously this is...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

For those interested in organized touring, the Charles River Wheelmen have rides almost every weekend and will provide a wealth of good advice. The Wheelmen encompass the full range of riders, from weekend daytrippers to international Tourists familiar with the most exotic of places.

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

Wallace is determined not to make the same mistakes he did in 1972. During that campaign, he won 35% of the popular vote in the primaries-more than any other Democratic candidate-but received only 12% of the convention ballots because in many states he neglected to follow party procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Wallace: Gearing Up Again | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

The appetite of the young for religious experience is leading along exotic paths these days-demons and gurus, mandalas and myths. Syracuse University Religion Professor David L. Miller encountered the phenomenon two years ago when he set out to teach a course on ancient Greek religion: his students asked him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Invoking the Gods | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Perhaps because its sun-blasted emptiness is so different from their cozily crowded, fog-shrouded island, the trackless desert has always attracted Englishmen. A straight line leads from Sir Richard Burton crossing the Arabian desert in 1853 and Lawrence of Arabia down to Geoffrey Moorhouse. Burton had a simple thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fear Strikes Out | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

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