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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations involved in long-distance trips can be of a delicacy worthy of a Geneva disarmament conference. A round-the-world trip from Miami, for example, theoretically costs $2,099, but a ticket for the same route can be bought in London for (pounds)998 ($1,254). "The trick," says Serge d'Adesky of Getaway Travel in Coral Gables, Fla., "is to maximize the effect of the strong dollar by purchasing a London-originated round-the-world fare and buying a Miami-London ticket on a carrier like People Express for $258. You will then have a saving of more...
...basic rates. Sample round-trip fares from New York: London, $639; Paris, $679; Rome, $799; Frankfurt, $734; Tel Aviv, $799; Tokyo, $1,305; Peking, $1,544. But then come all the different kinds of discounting: midweek flights are cheaper; so is APEX (Advance- Purchase Excursion rate, a round-trip ticket bought at least two to three weeks in advance). And then come discounts on discounts: if, for example, you cannot buy an APEX ticket 21 days in advance, but the airline happens to have an empty seat, perhaps an arrangement can be made...
...takes quite a lot of savings on bargain-price champagne, of course, to pay for a ticket on the Concorde (one way New York to London: $2,466). And although the dollar is high, so are the prices of many goods and services aimed at Americans. The Hermes scarf that now costs "only" $70 in Paris was also about $70 three or four years ago, when the dollar was worth 5 francs instead of nearly 10. At $131, the cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more...
...QUITE A CAST of characters. Prince Charles and Princess Diana--the fairy the couple locked in endless quarrels. The rakish Prince Philip, disdainful of life in Buckingham Palace. His imperturbable wife, Queen Elizabeth II. The dour Princess Anne, lining up a TV interview to pay for her plane ticket to Australia. The family rogue, Prince Andrew, smuggling porn actresses into the palace when his mother leaves on holiday. Prince Edward, ever dumb and awkward...
Despite the box-office success of such recent blockbusters as E.T. and Star Wars, no movie has topped Gone With the Wind. When measured in inflationadjusted dollars, the 1939 saga of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara has reaped $400 million in ticket sales, making it the biggest film bonanza of all time...