Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intent on cutting down expenses, General Ironsi fired rafts of civil servants and sharply reduced official travel abroad. And no one would fault him for good intentions on the broader economic front: "We recognize the important role of private investment. To this end, the government is revising the legislation relating to incentives in order to assist private businessmen to establish projects of benefit to the economy...
There are the apple-cheeked girls in their travel-poster costumes, twirling their skirts and assorted petticoats, skipping through elaborate variations of Ring-around-a-rosie and London-Bridge-is-falling-down. There are the lordly males who do everything except side-straddle hops. They fling their bodies about the stage like bean bags-somersaulting, jackknifing, slapping their heels. Always they smile, smile, smile. It is all good fun and, despite the Slavic sameness of it all, for sheer exuberance and whoopee making the folk dancers from Eastern Europe are matchless. Americans apparently cannot get enough of them...
This week Indira will first travel to Allahabad, where the ashes of Lal Bahadur Shastri will be strewn on the mingling waters of the Ganges...
Johnson asked for a twelfth Cabinet-level agency: a Department of Transportation. The new department, he said, could bring "efficiency and frugality" to the 35 different U.S. agencies that spend $5 billion a year working on various facets of travel and transportation. A possible choice to head it: Alan S. Boyd, now Commerce Under Secretary for Transportation. Johnson reiterated his plea for home rule in the District of Columbia, a measure that was beaten in the House last year, promised to "streamline" the Executive branch and "restructure" civil service in the top grades. And he proposed a "commission...
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. One of the finest descriptive poets now at work presents a magnificent album of verbal snapshots, the best of them taken in Brazil...