Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer space: "No one who believes in the Bible," said Adventist Vice President A. L. Ham, "can doubt the ultimate reality of space travel...
...year. What is more, Mad is solidly in the black though it carries not a line of advertising, has spent only $350 on outright promotion. In fact, the essence of Mad's success is its nimble spoofing of promotions of all kinds. In its parodies of advertisements and travel stickers, vending machines and lovelorn columnists, Mad is a refreshingly impudent reaction against all the slick stock in trade of 20th century hucksterism, its hopped-up sensationalism, its visible and hidden persuaders...
...inspired imitators; two new open-end investment funds and several Wall Street-type firms are now busily stimulating the securities market. From his marble-walled Rio office and his spacious Copacabana Beach home, Dauphinot is looking beyond Brazil for other back roads for his thundering jeep-herd to travel. Newest challenge: the undeveloped capital markets of Argentina...
...their arguments on specific statutes rather than on the Constitution, both sides of the Supreme Court hewed to the tradition that cases ought to be disposed of wherever possible on nonconstitutional grounds. But the 5-4 ruling kicked up a new debate on the broader issues of "right to travel" as balanced alongside "responsibilities of travel." In his opinion, Justice Douglas, anticipating a surge of keep-Communists-at-home bills in Congress, went out of his way to hint that such legislation might well be unconstitutional. Warned he: "We deal here with a constitutional right of the citizen, a right...
...have written more feelingly than James of how one falls in love with a place. Writing again of Venice, his favorite city, James rose above the snobbery of things old or new to capture the wonder of all moving travel experiences: "[Venice] varies like a nervous woman, whom you know only when you know all the aspects of her beauty. She has high spirits or low, she is pale or red, grey or pink, cold or warm, fresh or wan, according to the weather or the hour . . . The place seems to personify itself, to become human and sentient and conscious...