Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most information about the earth's interior, Mathematician Bullen pointed out, has been gained by recording and measuring the several kinds of waves sent out by earthquakes. As the waves travel through the earth, they are bent and reflected in complicated ways. Some waves move faster than others; some are absorbed entirely. By disentangling the jiggly lines made by instruments recording many earthquakes, seismologists have determined that the earth is formed of concentric layers of different materials, with iron-nickel at the center and stony oxides nearer the surface...
...fringes of the Communist upper-crust drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the waiting correspondents could well sing the new ditty, I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Cabled the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech from Hong Kong: "In the opinion of the correspondents, the Dulles statement authorizing them to travel to China (TIME, Sept. 2) was deliberately and provocatively contrived to leave the Reds no choice but to refuse." At his regular news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. would "consider on its merits" any application by a Chinese newsman to enter the U.S. To some, this seemed...
...flies round trip from New York to London for $469.20 (v. $522 for bigger lines), New York to Oslo for $472.20 (v. $590.60). Says Nicholas Craig, president of the line's U.S. subsidiary, which operates the transatlantic business: "For years the airlines have talked about bringing trans-ocean travel within reach of everybody's pocketbook. We've done something about...
Teachers & Turboprops. Most of Icelandic's passengers are people who, like the line itself, want to make a lot out of a little-Scandinavian-Americans off to visit relatives or settle down in the old country on small pensions, U.S. teachers, clergymen and students whose travel plans are big but funds small. They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v. 350 m.p.h. for DC-7s. At times, the trips take five hours longer than on other lines. Yet Icelandic's seven-man crews take care to fly around...