Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the country's cinema artists, who travel abroad a good deal, now find that they can feel at home in their own country for the first time. One of them is Actress Sylva Daničková, the lovely hostess at her country's Kinoautomat success at Expo 67. "I was always traveling abroad talking about politics, art, love-anything-critically, angrily and happily, however I felt," says Miss Daničková. "But when I came home, it was silence. You couldn't really participate in the life of your country...
...umpires are giving the pitchers all the breaks," grouses Henry Aaron. Other batsmen blame their anemic averages on the hardships of coast-to-coast travel, the lengthened big-league schedule, the visual vicissitudes of night baseball, the spacious new ballparks that turn extra-base blasts into long outs, and the bushel-basket-sized gloves used by fielders today. Factors all, but the commanding factor still is a quantum improvement in pitching quality...
...latest nonfiction book, The Promise of Space, Clarke foresees the ultimate magic of travel to the stars. "It is not difficult," he explains, "if one is in no particular hurry." For flights that will last from decades to hundreds of years, he has worked out a method that will avoid dooming travelers to spend most of their lives in space. Simply send egg and sperm cells on the trip, he says, and have computers mate them some 20 years before the voyage is to end. After that, he suggests, "carry the embryos through to birth by techniques already foreshadowed...
...Expedition made relatively little progress during its last few weeks of spring travel. The soft ice slowed the dog sleds down considerably, and unfavorable ice drifting occasionally pushed them farther south than they could sled north. One sled was nearly lost when a recently refrozen "ice lead" or channel broke under the sled's weight. Frequent pressure ridges (the ice rubble, sometimes 80 feet high, that results from two large ice floes' collision) also slowed them down...
...July 6th, the ice had become too soft for further travel, so the Expedition settled down for a 13-week summer rest. By this time the ocean currents had produced favorable ice drifting, sometimes ten miles a day toward the Pole. Yet at 83 North and 165 West, they are still 170 miles short of the spot on the International Date Line where they had originally planned to set up camp...