Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through TV, millions of Americans have become thoroughly familiar with sports they once knew only through the often unreliable and overblown prose of sportswriters. "I'd travel around in the 1920s and 1930s and tell people that pro football was a good game," says Illinois All-America Red Grange, "and they'd laugh at me. 'Did you ever see a game?' I'd ask them. 'Well, no, they'd say." Former New York Giants Halfback Frank Gifford, who did not come into the National Football League until 1952, remembers going home to California...
...goods and nearly every kind of apparel, including paper dresses. Few paid much attention to picketing by pro-Peking youths or to the anti-U.S. tracts they passed out. To make the occasion thoroughly American, L'Tnnovation officials had splashed red, white and blue decorations and U.S. travel posters throughout the store...
...Western Europe these days, planes are getting increasing competition from the oldfashioned, earthbound railroad train. Across the Continent, a spreading network known as the Trans Europe Express is holding its own in the jet age - and teaching its passengers to expect luxury while they travel...
Brainchild of Frans Q. den Hollander, former president of Netherlands Railway, Trans Europe was born of a desire to make travel truly pleasant. "I am fed up with the bureaucrats at the borders," said Den Hollander. His original plan called for a single type of train that would link a united Europe-with a spur under the Channel to Britain. Although that grand scheme has yet to be realized, Den Hollander has succeeded in eliminating visa-checking delays at borders. Nowadays customs officials do their work aboard the moving trains...
Greyhound's turn to diversification began in 1962, when Chairman Frederick W. Ackerman, fearing a leveling off of bus travel, began searching for new uses of Greyhound's cash. His first bet became a bonanza. For $14.7 million in stock, Greyhound bought San Francisco's Boothe Leasing Corp., which had been earning $400,000 a year mainly by leasing railroad freight cars and locomotives. Ackerman began buying jetliners-and made money when the credit-shy airlines started cashing in on the jet age. The subsidiary's earnings have zoomed 1,300%, to $6.2 million...