Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes it sound in Illinois as though he opposed federal aid to segre gated schools, in Florida as though he favors it, and in Minnesota as though he had not made up his mind." Down & Up. While Adlai Stevenson was descending from the high road he had planned to travel before he accepted the Democratic nomination, Estes Kefauver moved up a level. Confronted by the new Stevenson attack, he replied that he had never used the word "bosses," but has spoken only of Stevenson's support among "powerful political leaders." He drawled softly: "I have had only kind words...
...millions of U.S. tourists who will vacation abroad this summer, the world has its hand out-in welcome. Traditionally, the travel season opens in early July. But this year it came with the crocuses. When the Queen Mary noses out into the Atlantic this week, it will be the first time she has ever sailed from New York in early April completely sold out. On Easter Sunday white excursion steamers chugged back into service on the Rhine. In Rome, as the Judas trees burst into pink bloom, tourists who broke traffic laws got only a printed warning-with the mayor...
...nearest American Express office. It is the tourist's "home away from home," in the cozy words of American Express President Ralph Thomas Reed. A handsome, hazel-eyed man who looks like any other tripper when he goes abroad, Reed is the businessman who first applied to foreign travel all the ingenuity and resources of U.S. industry...
...Express is a seasoned troubleshooter, will handle just about every imaginable disaster between womb and tomb. When an Egyptologist died abroad, she left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe...
...American Express President Reed foreign travel is not only a business but a creed as well. Travel dollars, he preaches, build up foreign economies and cut taxes at home. U.S. tourists last year spent $100 overseas for every $36 that foreign nations received in aid from the U.S. Government. Reed contends that the spread can be increased still more through what he calls "Point Five-the economic power of the U.S. consumer directed to overseas nations through tourism." As a result, Reed is welcomed by foreign government officials as a genie who magically produces dollars-with a little effort...