Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track team can regularly cover the half-mile in under two minutes, but doctors at the University Health Service oftimes need ten times that to travel the half-mile from Stillman Infirmary to the Yard. Stillman took half an hour to get a doctor to the Indoor Athletic Building Tuesday night when a Freshman fencer was stabbed during practice. Last May a sophomore in Claverly died before a doctor arrived, forty minutes after students had called Stillman...
Intourist Controls Travel...
...that has changed. Various kinds of tourist bureaus are now offering package tours to Europe which include, quite likely, a week or two in Moscow and Leningrad. Such a policy change is an encouraging development in the Cold War. With enough money, it has become possible to travel to almost any country in the world...
...dissatisfaction with being cut off from the West. Many of the students even used the Russian equivalent of "Iron Curtain" to express this. They wanted to have access to objective information about the West; they wanted to read Western books, to see Western movies, and to be able to travel freely...
...average traveler, Intourist is indispensable. Malia found it so on numerous occasions as well. As he put it, "I didn't have eight hours to wait in the railroad station to get a ticket." So he would use Intourist. Most people would find themselves quite dependent on this organization, which in many ways is unfortunate, since it is virtually impossible to obtain anything more than a vague impression of the country and people with its help. The paradox is that without it, travel in Russia would be impossible for most foreigners. Malia was lucky he saw so much