Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost obsolete campaign train, which will be revived fitfully this month, was relished by none: it once meant days on end without showers, air conditioning or stationary sleep. But the new prop-stop technique creates tighter, more ambitious travel schedules and a clutter of motor cade side trips, makes it far tougher to get a story written-and to file between the incommunicado hours aloft...
...their hotel stopovers; their keys are handed to them as they enter. Buses and police escorts are prompt; breakfast is invariably hot as the plane takes off each morning, and the Stevenson press staff, headed by Clayton Fritchey, gets all the speeches out in advance. But newsmen with Stevenson travel in a separate plane, get less access to the candidate than those with Nixon and Kefauver...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...signals, he thinks, come from "sources" that are clustered predominantly on one side of the planet. The radio waves from the sources are normally reflected back to the planet's surface by ionized layers in the Venusian atmosphere. The only waves that reach outer space are those that travel vertically and are therefore reflected less strongly. In effect, a broad beam of radio waves sweeps around Venus as the planet revolves. Only when the beam points toward the earth is it detected by Dr. Kraus. So the time between the peaks of energy gives Venus' period of rotation...
Wolfe speaks for and to the young, particularly to young men who know instinctively that "it is good to eat, to drink, to sleep, to fish, to swim, to run, to travel to strange cities, to ride on land, sea and in the air upon great machines, to love a woman, to try to make a beautiful thing." He speaks against the naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists...