Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many social, political and economic ills, I can feel nothing but pride and gratitude toward a nation that will enable my children's children to abandon earthly strife in search of better worlds. I am only sorry that the generation of men and women who are making interplanetary travel a reality will themselves be confined to the boundaries of Mother Earth, thanks to Father Time...
...Nixon trip began with a nod toward accommodation rather than confrontation with China. Washington announced relaxation of 19-year-old strictures on trade with and travel to mainland China. The new regulation allows travel to China-without special application to the State Department beyond normal passport procedures-for members of Congress, teachers, scholars with postgraduate degrees, undergraduates, scientists, medical doctors, Red Cross representatives and journalists. The relaxed rule also permits U.S. tourists to buy up to $100 worth of goods manufactured on the Chinese mainland. Substantively, the changes could not be considered as very important. As the U.S. expected, Peking...
...earlier years of the jet age, swiftly growing travel and the sheer efficiency of the new planes sent airline stocks soaring - in some cases more than 1,000%. "Many a house was built on the profits that people made from 1961 through 1966 in their airline investments," says Bache & Co. Analyst Henry Siegel. Now the airline stocks are no longer the high and the mighty. They are among the leaders in the market's decline, down as a group by 37% since the beginning of the year. The drop is accelerating: the index of air stocks fell...
Black athletes are capitalizing on their star value in the fast-growing field of franchising. Wilt Chamberlain has a Diners Fugazy Travel franchise in Los Angeles, and Lou Brock holds a Dodge dealership in East St. Louis. Retired Celtics Forward Willie Naulls, who now lives in Los Angeles, has a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and a shopping center in the Watts-Compton area. He plans to open his own chain of Soulville, U.S.A., take-out food stores, which are to be designed along the lines of the shack he lived in as a child in Texas. Brady Keys, a former...
...only getting better and better. Wages are going higher, and hours are getting shorter. People have got to have a place to spend it." That is the basic business maxim of Kirk Kerkorian, the travel-and-leisure entrepreneur whose retiring manner belies the fact that in 20 years he has amassed a fortune estimated at $275 million...