Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choice. When it was time for the new representative to leave for Delhi, the Maharaja thoughtfully provided him with a secretary to guide him through the intricacies of modern life and parliamentary government. But the first thing the secretary did was to use Kesa's first-class government travel allowance for himself and put the chief into a crowded third-class compartment. In New Delhi the secretary rented two rooms in the chief's name, moved into one room himself, sublet the other, and made Kesa sleep on the veranda. He also took all of Kesa...
Thus far, the Greek clergy have resisted Russian blandishment, and remained loyal to their own church, but Greek Orthodox supporters are bracing for trouble. Said one last week: "Polikarp and his fellows . . . can travel freely throughout Israel and over the border into the Arab states without fear of a police check. An awfully large heap of gold sovereigns can be hidden away in a big car like theirs. And the Greek clergy are very poor men." Meanwhile, the Russians from the embassy keep attending Sunday services and praying for the worst...
...Bell and Richardson must constantly visit their news sources, travel about three weeks of every month. With 90 extra pages added to the normal 48 pages of his passport, Bell now carries that bulky document in a briefcase. To keep visas valid for quick take-offs to new trouble spots, both men apply for new visas immediately on returning from any country. At first, legation officials objected: "But you've just come back." But now, reports Richardson: "They know us and treat us like commuters buying a new monthly ticket for the 8:05." On a recent return...
...said Nixon in Denver last week. "I am out here to help General Eisenhower get elected." No passive running mate, Nixon has been conferring with Eisenhower steadily during recent weeks, has offered firm and sometimes critical suggestions on how the campaign should be run. Nixon himself is preparing to travel up & down the land, particularly to places that Eisenhower will not cover. Nixon will go to New Hampshire this week, also intends to campaign in Republican Maine-a state, like a woman, he thinks, should never have the feeling of being taken for granted...
Career: Not rich, left with an income of about ?200 ($560) a year, Clarissa worked in the wartime Ministry of Information on Britansky Soyuznik, an English-language propaganda newspaper edited in London and published in Russia. Later switched to the Foreign Office. Postwar jobs: feature editor (books, art, travel) of the London edition of Vogue; publicity woman at ?1,000 a year (a good salary for a woman in Britain) for Moviemaker Sir Alexander Korda...