Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Airlines flying the DC-10 are losing $5 million a day because of its decertification and grounding right at the start of the peak summer travel season. If the suspension goes on long enough, many may sue McDonnell Douglas, but, again, insurance would probably cover most of the bill...
Savimbi's forces have stayed intact by relying on well-tested guerrilla survival tactics. To travel safely on roads that may be mined, UNITA convoys follow herds of elephants or buffalo; if these animated mine detectors trigger an explosion, the guerrillas know not only that the way is clear, but also that they are going to eat well. Now that large areas of south Angola are coming under its control, UNITA is setting up schools and agricultural cooperatives. But for the most part, Savimbi's forces are constantly on the move, carrying their possessions on their backs...
...vice president of Holiday Inns, Inc., Hines is neither disinterested nor powerless. Says he: "You're sitting there with more than 1,500 Holiday Inns in the U.S., with 20% of them at roadside, and you begin thinking, hard." The motel chain's response: the National Travel Gas Advisory Plan, with every inn "holidexing" daily into a computer infomation about fuel availability at some five nearby stations. Tourists who call 800-238-8000 can find out which inns-and hence which regions-are well supplied with gas. In the two weeks since the plan began, 1,400 people...
...hours after learning of that discovery, the FAA grounded all DC-10s, the first time it had ever done so to a fleet of jetliners. The move immobilized 12% of the capacity of U.S. passenger planes and substantially disrupted air travel. By week's end ominous faults of various kinds -cracked plates, loose bolts-had turned up in the pylons of 36 of the inspected aircraft. After repair, one got back into the air, with FAA permission, joining 102 found to have no defects. But Philip Hogue, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the American crash...
...control spontaneous combustion. Both church and state, though, have been working together somewhat touchily to avoid unruly demonstrations. In Warsaw, liquor sales were banned. The Pope will travel into recently created security sectors. Both church and state agreed that spectator tickets to papal events would be issued only to people living in that sector. Meanwhile, the Communist regime may end up paying the bulk of $65,000 to put up the new altar in Victory Square in Warsaw, $116,000 worth of portable toilets in Cracow, and $25,000 to pay for special hats worn by 40,000 volunteer Catholic...