Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century ago, Abraham Lincoln received a letter from Anna's King of Siam offering a gift of elephants to "bear burdens and travel through uncleared woods and matted jungles where no carriage and cart roads have yet been made." The beasts might have served well in the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness, but Lincoln politely declined the offer. The sentiment, however, was not forgotten...
...Place to Go. Return to earth after their demanding ordeal in space was obviously a relief for the travel-jaded astronauts. But for them, as for Schirra and Stafford, the biggest moment had already passed. That was the historic instant when the two space capsules eased into sight of each other. For Gemini 7, it marked the end of a long loneliness; for Gemini 6, it meant the end of a long period of misfortune. Until then, its mission had seemed dogged by failure...
...Prep and theology at the Jesuits' Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where one of his students in 1963 was David Miller, the arrested draft-card burner. Since 1964 he has been an associate editor of Jesuit Missions magazine, a pleasant job that gives him plenty of time to travel and write...
...rack car attached to the rear of the train, will offer the service again next summer. Most railroads are experimenting with fare cuts to boost traffic, especially at off-peak hours. C. & O.-B. & O. cuts its fares 31% on "red circle days" (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), when travel is light; the Pennsy has cut-rate mid-week Philadelphia-New York Ladies' Day Specials. Only a few trains offer such attractions, however, and the railroads' revenues and profits from passengers are still declining...
...Harvard student now is busy finishing term papers, buying unexpected gifts, and making travel arrangements. Ever since be discovered Santa was a fake, he's been verbally conscious of the things which are wrong with Christmas. It seems a crystallization of all the things he considers "sick in our society"--he won't even admit that he still likes to see "A Christmas Carol" performed on TV or that those same damn carols do get to him now and them. But the Maiden Aunt knows, for beneath her dignity and austerity she is an incurable romantic. After all, those wreaths...