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...outdoor vacation that requires no legwork at all is Wagon Ho!, a threeday, 5-m.p.h. slog through Kansas over an old wagon trail-in authentic replicas of covered wagons. For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills. The weekly wagon trains pull out from Quinter, 325 miles west of Kansas City, travel 110 miles round trip and, claims Wagon Ho!, never come within sight of a road or house...
...Chicano course; eight have stayed with a family and several more volunteers are waiting their turn. "A lot of guys think they're going to be with someone who'll cut their throats," says Patrolman Mike Robitzer, the first cop to live in. He emerged from his threeday, two-night stint without a scratch. Joining an eleven-member family with a father on welfare, he experienced a degree of culture shock. He shared a drafty enclosed patio with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs and orange juice." He happily accepted until...
...people look upon second inaugurations much as they do upon second weddings: they are really not worth the trouble. In spite of such sentiment, or perhaps because of it, the 1973 Inaugural Committee staged a threeday, $4,000,000 extravaganza to mark what the President's admirer, Bob Hope, referred to as "the time when Richard I becomes Richard...
...scheduled and nonscheduled lines have been available to just about anybody in Europe for nearly a decade, enabling millions of middle-and low-income people who could not otherwise afford air travel to jet off to vacation spots at amazingly low package rates. Typical enticements: Londoners can buy a threeday, all-expense trip to Moscow this winter for $71 or spend four days on the Costa Brava in Spain for $34; Danes can fly to Rome for a week on $92, including hotel and two meals daily, or to the Canary Islands on a similar plan...
...also much easier for Israel to defend. In any peace negotiation, therefore, a crucial question will be how much of this occupied territory Israel will be willing to relinquish and how much it will insist on retaining to preserve border security. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Marsh Clark made a threeday, 465-mile tour along Israel's eastern boundaries. He discovered "a frenzy of construction and settlement activity," which suggests that Israel is not about to surrender its occupied territory. His report...