Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action may well have signaled a mild easing of tensions between the two countries. There have also been other signs of a thaw. Though the U.S.'s six-year-old trade embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...
Clerk to Cook. According to Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio, the sessions revealed irregularities aplenty. There was, for example, the peculiar case of the 22 travel credit cards held by Powell-committee staffers. Mrs. Emma Swann, a committee receptionist whose name appeared on vouchers for 20 trips, testified that she had made only three of them - and that they were to Miami for "sightseeing and shopping." Russell Derrickson, staff director of Powell's panel, denied making any of the 26 trips charged to his name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain...
...tiny payload on one-way trips, and would require six years to reach Saturn, 16 years to Uranus and 30.7 years to Neptune. But the planetary timetable may soon be revised. An ingenious navigational technique and new space engines, says a Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, could drastically cut travel time to distant planets as early as the 1970s...
While the use of the interplanetary billiard technique drastically cuts travel time, Stewart says, it does little to reduce the large amounts of fuel and great initial thrust required to send a spacecraft to the distant planets. But another rapidly developing propulsion system, the solar-powered ion engine, may well solve that problem in time for the flights of the 1970s. Using electricity generated by solar panels, these engines produce a stream of ions (charged atomic particles) that provide a minute amount of thrust - usually measured in hundredths of a pound...
...bothered by the aircraft shortage, but not by fare competition, since the new fare plan, originally proposed by Pan American Airlines, has a number of disadvantages for students. A passenger might travel New York to London and return for as little as $230 -- less than HSA's rate -- but he is required to schedule and pay for an additional $70 worth of European tourist services when he buys his ticket. Such services might include lodging, transportation, and meals in Europe...