Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complaints about the overcrowded Friday-night trains left him unmoved. "If everybody wants to travel on weekends," he said, "they will have to stand...
...stepped off his plane at London Airport last week to take over his duties as Britain's new Astronomer Royal, he promptly let fly with some observations that shook space enthusiasts to their dedicated core. Gruffed Woolley, in response to reporters' questions about the prospects for interplanetary travel: "It's utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing . . . What good would it do us? If we spent the same amount of money on preparing first-class astronomical equipment we would learn much more about...
...moon will take place within the next 20 years and that Professor Woolley will live to see it ... Future Astronomers Royal will spend most of their time in space observatories and not in Hurstmonceux [home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory]." Added Interplanetary Society Council Member Kenneth Gatland: "Space travel is inevitable . . . Toward the end of the century we will get manned vehicles which will orbit the moon, and right at the end ... we will get actual landings." Confessed one of Woolley's fellow astronomers at the Royal Observatory: "I'm not going to throw cold water on space...
These glowing words came not from U.S. travel bureaus but from top Russian newsmen back behind the Iron Curtain after a 33-day junket through the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 31). The seven junketeers managed to needle the U.S. in their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers...
...cost is $800 for tuition and an estimated $550 expenses, including personal expenses and travel. A few scholarships are available...