Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delicate, high tech yet oddly primitive, the plane looks like some elegant insect or a sleek, latter-day pterodactyl. With her reedlike central wing slicing across three slender cylinders, she might have been designed by an austere modern sculptor rather than an aeronautical engineer. In an age of space travel and supersonic flight, her mission is a throwback to a different kind of odyssey: to fly not faster, but longer. Not higher, but farther. Voyager is a flight of fancy, of quaint possibility...
Voyager is trundling along at an average 110 miles an hour, an almost Victorian pace by jet-age standards. (Lindbergh's average cruising speed was 107 m.p.h.) While contemporary travel makes the world a smaller place as the Concorde zips from New York to Paris in less than four hours, the flight of Voyager seems to restore the planet to its full, true grandeur. Even if the plane does not make it all the way back, Yeager says, she will still feel a sense of achievement. "If we made the attempt and something happened to the airplane," she said...
...Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel more than 300 miles to celebrate Christmas with his family, whom he has not seen in nearly a year. "They will slaughter a goat to mark my return," he says with a smile...
Though the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid group, has organized a boycott campaign this Christmas to protest Pretoria's state of emergency, the minersqit week were far more interested in travel than in politics. At the Booysens train station in southern Johannesburg, 1,000 workers, some still in hard hats, others stripped to the waist, waited for three hours before the third-class carriages pulled in. A few dipped bread into tins of stew, washing it down with drafts of Lion beer and Viceroy brandy. Most were sprawled alongside mountains of suitcases and possessions, including sewing machines...
...Manhattan costume-jewelry boutique that will sell an estimated $500,000 in faux adornments this year: "There's so much pressure on people today. They need to add a sense of humor to their wardrobes." But imitation-jewelry fans also have practical reasons for their newfound passion. "If you travel with your good jewelry, you're going to get knocked over the head," observes Ann Mahony, a West Coast businesswoman, who recalls that she used to pin gems inside her lingerie before becoming a faux devotee. "Even now that I can afford the real thing, I still buy costume jewelry...