Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director of TIME-LIFE International, Stevens DeClerque, TLI advertising director, and Ralph Davidson, European advertising director for TLI. Their audience consisted of the president and top officials of Vneshtorgreklama, the Soviets' sole export advertising agency, and executives of more than 30 foreign-trade trusts including Intourist, the government travel agency; Aeroflot, the national airline; Prodintorg, food; and Soyuzpushnina, furs and carpets. How this unique gathering came about was explained by Bear: "For some time we have followed Russia's apparent desire to increase trade in nonstrategic goods with other countries. We thought the time was right to invite...
...TRAFFIC. To speed subway travel, he proposed construction of several new lines, triple-tracking, and staggered working hours for New Yorkers. As for auto traffic, he suggested expansion of cross-town express routes, priority lanes for busses and trucks, more municipal parking facilities, and relocation of the city's cargo docks so that freight-laden trucks would no longer burden Manhattan streets...
...declaration gave Smith and his men the massive powers of a police-state regime. Newspapers and magazines could be censored or even closed by simple decree, private travel and public gatherings could be banned, and such institutions as bars and beer halls closed down. Even worse, according to the 24-page official document outlining the government's emergency powers, "any police officer may, without warrant, arrest and detain any person of whom he has reason to believe there are grounds which would justify his detention...
Elsewhere, the road ahead looks equally bright. There is not a single stop light on the highways linking Cleveland to Boston (650 miles), St. Louis to Wichita Falls, Texas (658), and Macon, Ga., to Miami (580). The record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...
...West, which is still a few paces behind in the interstate highway race, is closing fast. In the 1970s, a relentless roadrunner will be able to travel nearly 1,500 miles from Vancouver to Tijuana without ever seeing...