Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity fencing team lost to a surprisingly tough Penn squad, 16 to 11, Saturday at Philadelphia. The Crimson won in foil, 7 to 2, with captain Bill Trebilcock taking three straight bouts, but the Quakers reversed the foil score in the other two divisions. Tonight the varsity will travel to Worcester for a contest with Holy Cross...
...York's 1,500,000 vehicles; new apartment houses would have to provide more garage space, new commercial buildings would have to provide off-street parking. Exceptions: in business districts in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, the planners hoped that lack of parking facilities would persuade some drivers to travel by public transportation...
...Nerves. Amid the laughter and the happy clink of coin, revolutionary Cuba was as left out as a snowbound Kansas farm. Even after the casinos reopened (see below), war-scared tourists were so scarce that each big Havana hotel offered 40 to 50 free rooms to Miami travel agents as a come-on. Most of the $60 million annual revenue from tourism will be lost. The peaceful islands do not hesitate to capitalize on the trouble. "While other countries in the Caribbean undergo riot and revolution," beamed the Jamaica Tourist Board last week, "Jamaica remains a haven of happiness...
...Minister, was little different from Fidel Castro, the talkative, disorganized rebel. He moved out of the confusion of his Havana Hilton suite and into the confusion of a stucco chalet named High Ranch, on a hill east of Havana. Typical scene one noon in the living room: a woman travel writer asleep on a couch, cigar butts on the floor, a disconnected chandelier. Outside on the porch a cassocked priest sat reading the funny papers...
...statesmen can not stay as long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes the latter approach...