Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's lifting of passport restrictions to Iron Curtain countries by the State Department has prompted several travel bureaus to arrange tours to the Soviet Union for the first time this summer, a check of various agencies revealed yesterday...
...University Travel Company in Cambridge said that it had made contacts with Intourist, the official Russian travel service, and expects to make a public announcement within two weeks...
...hoping to have a two-week visit to some parts of Russia," William M. Anderson, a spokesman for University Travel, said yesterday. He estimated that the Russian part of the tour would cost about $40 a day and that there would be room for about 20 Harvard...
...SORROWS OF TRAVEL, by John Breon (250 pp.; Putnam; $3.50), is a novel about that old literary subject, restored to life by the G.I. Bill of Rights: young Americans in postwar Paris. First Novelist Breon writes knowingly enough about boys and girls who came to create and stayed to drink, but he cannot make their problems seem important, and perhaps they should have stayed home in the first place...
Harvard itself has contributed to what may prove the most significant achievement of the Geneva Spirit: the development of contacts between East and West. With the Iron Curtain drawn slightly, two Faculty members took the opportunity last summer to travel and study in the Soviet Union, while a third, who is in Russia now, has recently arranged for the exchange of millions of books between that country and the United States...