Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a long, fascinating, marvelous journey," mused TIME's Hugh Sidey last week. "And now the time has just come for a change." After 17 years as deputy head and then chief of our Washington, D.C., bureau, Sidey is stepping down. I am glad to report that he will continue to write his column, "The Presidency," for TIME. His replacement as bureau chief is Robert Ajemian, most recently the magazine's national political correspondent. In addition to his column, Sidey will doubtless take on other assignments. Writing, after all, is in his blood. Born to a family...
...last week, aides passed out a two-page memo to the 170 reporters who accompanied him aboard two chartered planes. Entitled "Health Advisory for Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes in Liberia...
Nonetheless, when Carter, Wife Rosalynn and Daughter Amy head back to Washington early this week, the presidential party can point to some modest returns from the journey. It gave the President an opportunity to restate his concern about human rights overseas, dramatize his interest in developing nations and bask in the warm cheers of friendly foreign crowds...
...notable result of Carter's scientific bent: the budget for basic research has gone up 11% to begin the absolutely crucial journey back to full respectability in scientific knowledge. Both Nixon and Johnson not only distrusted eggheads in the scientific world but also cut their influence and money. Maybe part of the problem was the ineptitude of these two in the world of machines. Nixon could not run a tape recorder. Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wristwatch and once had to halt his automobile to solve the problem of turning on the windshield squirter...
...while later, Astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President's big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens. Carter asked most of the questions, his eyes bright with the sense of adventure, urging that any new missions to Mars seek out mountains and valleys and old volcanoes instead of staying on the more level or gently rolling surfaces...