Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer travel season was coming to an end, but a lot of people were still wingdinging around the world. After dining with Cinemactor Rossano (Summertime) Brazzi, Margaret Truman wound up a ten-day Roman holiday by taking the Paris Express for London, where Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. will put her up.' Accompanied by his wife and two law partners, former Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey took off on a monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis...
Travelogues are, as a rule, pretty dreary stuff, with an off-screen commentator reading a script copied out of the World Almanac. Only seldom does a travel short even try to show the "natives" as people rather than as models for picturesque costumes. But Songs of the Auvergne, made by Miles Morgan '50, not only tries but succeeds impressively...
...zone. (Under the agreement's gradual withdrawal clause, the British by last week had turned about half of the canal zone over to Egyptian control.) It was a momentous, street-filling, torchlight-parading triumph for the revolutionary regime, and it gave the Nasser junta fuel on which to travel for months to come. There was, however, grumbling from one sector: the Moslem Brotherhood saw betrayal of Islam in Egypt's agreement to let the British back into Suez if Turkey is attacked-the one vague link Nasser has allowed himself to make with the West...
Eden left Chequers in a helicopter (the first British Prime Minister to travel in one) and flew straight to Farnborough, site of Britain's famed annual air show. There, with his grey head tilted back over his immaculate white collar, he studied the performance of the flashy jet bombers and fighters on which his government will spend most of its defense money. Most spectacular of the zooming jet planes was a delta-wing Vulcan bomber, that slow-rolled over the field. "Would you like to fly home in one?" an official asked. "Yes, but no rolls," the Prime Minister...
...officials estimate, only about 100 defectors have redefected in response to the appeals, which have been made by personal letter, by radio and in new magazines, e.g., Czechoslovakia's For Return to the Homeland. Most have been Czechs, who have the shortest distance to travel, and most have been refugees cooled off by the two-year D.P. camp detention which is all but automatic for escapees from the East. Last week on Poland's Radio Homeland, one Stefan Michalsky." onetime Voice of America announcer, took to the air to say the Vistula never looked lovelier, and to urge...