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Undoubtedly the quickest way to get to Europe, albeit the most expensive, is by plane. And at this time of year air travel offers another advantage in that accomodations are still available for most summer flights. Prices, which are the objectionable factor here, are approximately $513 for roundtrip flights to London and $549 to Paris. As an added incentive, at least one air line offers arrangements whereby a passenger can stop off at ten or more European cities on one round-trip ticket...
...raft Kon-Tiki, which drifted across the Pacific from Peru to the Raroia Reef near Tahiti, may have been traveling a two-way highway. This is the theory of Dr. Thomas Davis of New Zealand, who believes that Polynesians made the roundtrip passage in great sailing canoes. If they stayed far enough south, they were helped by the prevailing winds and currents that cross that part of the Pacific from west to east. On the return trip, they were able to use the same winds and currents that favored the Kon-Tiki on its crossing near the equator. In fact...
...seats for 8,000 passengers. Already booked heavily through July, the tourist flights are expected to swell to a record 400,000 the number of American tourists traveling in Europe this year. Sample tourist fare this summer: round trip from New York to London, $486, v. $711 first class; (roundtrip tourist class by boat to Southampton...
...support of tourist rates beginning next spring. But there was no final agreement on the rates. Pan Am wants to cut the present $395 one-way fare to $225, with a $405 round-trip rate. The other airlines and the CAB want a $265 one-way fare and $477 roundtrip. The proposed rates would also cut 25% from the round-trip fare during the offseason months when travel is lighter. On all tourist flights the airlines expect to carry about one-third more passengers (e.g., 82 on a DC-6B, 60 on a Constellation), charge passengers for meals...
...found that the waves lost very little energy during their roundtrip. His conclusion: the pressure collapses the water crystals, packing the molecules into a structureless mass. Only then does the water behave like the "classical liquid" it seems...