Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teen-agers are not only getting department store and local bank credit cards [Feb. 2], but many fathers are giving sons and daughters travel and entertainment cards too. They find this not only gives children the equivalent of emergency cash for airline tickets and service-station expenses, but also gives them facilities to eat, lodge and shop. There are few cases of overspending-and the rare ones that do occur are easily controlled when the parent gets his monthly bill...
...city fighting was in Saigon. Once a gracious, languid island in the midst of war, Saigon last week was a city rimmed by fear. Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon-Cholon area is not considered secure. Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their...
Bennion blamed the decrease on students who are just waiting around to see what action will be taken on the President's suggested travel tax. Before the President's January State of the Union message the applications were 10 per cent ahead of last year...
Though Congress initially looked askance at travel taxes, it came around to the realization that some action was needed to stem the outflow of gold and dollars. "We can't cure the balance of payments situation by keeping a few tourists home," said Wisconsin's Congressman John Byrnes, but he conceded that he would vote for the taxes if the President proposed other measures as well to plug the drain...
...thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention. If he is to travel the primary route, he must make up his mind a scant week after New Hampshire, for March 19 is the deadline for filing a disclaimer of interest in the May 28 Oregon primary...