Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bonanza has caught many travel organizations with their telexes down. Carefree David Travels, an Atlanta-based agency that puts together charter packages for travel agents, has had to add five staffers and five telephone lines since June 1, and could use five more employees if it had time to train them. Charter Travel Corp., which specializes in scheduled charters and operates out of Chicago and Minneapolis, has added eight U.S. cities and three European destinations...
...travel from Paris to Marseilles, would you fly or take the train! If the response send you scurrying to Charles De Gaulie Airport. The Return of Martin Guerre is probably not for you. But anyone patient enough to appreciate the subtle pleasures of a train ride through the French countryside featuring glimpses of lush panoramas and cameos of sleepy towns should enjoy this film, whose chief virtue is its sense of place...
...heinous crime. And while Bertrande and her husband are physically threatened by those who suspect Martin is an impostor, it never occurs to the couple to begin again in another town. But that is only a solution in today's mobile, even rootless, society: in 16th-century France, even train travels would have been far too swift...
...different from the surrounding area. Closer up, just below a mixed herd of grazing Angus and Hereford cattle, a hole in the bluff can be seen with big semitrailers going in and out. The address: 8300 N.E. Underground Drive. From another nearby hole rumbles a Burlington Northern freight train...
...first sheriff of Independence, Mo., the first white man to lead a party to the brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the toy and TV industries" like his contemporary, Kit Carson. The reason he did not: Walker's stubborn refusal to embroider his achievements for legend-hungry Eastern journalists. So they "moved on to men and events that could be conventionally romanticized...