Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cashier and bar checker at a watering hole on Broadway hard by the Metropolitan Opera House. Last week she turned up at the place across the street, this time as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. To cover the 100-odd yards, she had to travel to the musical capitals of Europe and back again...
...Liquid Blonde." For the man in the street who hungers for the stars, Space Journal is designed to fill a vacuum between the trade publications and scientific magazines such as the American Rocket Society's Astronautics and Jet Propulsion. The new issue ranges from space-travel's past-a piece on Massachusetts-born Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)-to such futuristic items as an estimate of the cost of sending mail by rocket to the moon ($25 a letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling...
...RUSSIAN TRAVEL BOOM will attract some 4,000 Americans to U.S.S.R. this year (v. 2,500 in 1957), and Russians plan to send first large tourist parties to U.S. American Express will open Moscow office, station first full-time U.S. travel agent there since World...
...said Arctic Explorer Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen. who never understood what a man wanted with the steam-heated creature comforts of civilization. Yet in civilization or out. inferior was hardly the word for Freuchen. who managed to fashion successful careers as newspaperman, lecturer, travel writer and novelist (Eskimo ). During World War II, the vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more...
Back at his Beirut travel base of operations. Author Sitwell was driven half mad by the continual playing of Scheherazade over the hotel's loudspeaker system. But he had no complaints about "the tourist service that had arranged most of his tour, appropriately named the Sinbad Travel Agents...