Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paved road in Haiti, running north from the Port-au-Prince capital of Cap-Haïtien, is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters that all but disembowel any cars and trucks that travel it. Construction on the $40 million Artibonite Valley irrigation project has stopped, and 30-ft.-high cacti choke the rich sisal fields outside Port-au-Prince. Bankruptcies are rising sharply in the capital, and in the countryside starving peasant mothers beg visitors to buy their babies for two gourdes, or 400 U.S., in hopes that the infants will survive. The country...
Beaches are a matter of personal taste. Under the impression that popularity spells quality, the timid tourist is apt to want his beaches garnished with multicolored parasols, well-lotioned nymphs, and even a lifeguard thrown in for good measure. But a few intrepid travelers still like their beaches au naturel, and more and more are discovering that some of the most beautiful, unspoiled beaches in the world are to be found between two remote little towns named Antalya and Anamur on the south coast of Turkey. Framed against the Taurus mountain range that rises sharply to the north, and edged...
...among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel. Reason: couples over 65 have an average income of only $3,376 a year, just half the median for all Americans, therefore usually lay out their entire incomes. Their spending power has risen from $18 billion a year in 1960 to nearly $23 billion today-and will rise further with...
...State Department, invoking its 1961 ban on travel to Cuba, turned down U.S. Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, 22, who wanted to compete in Havana's international Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Checked tem porarily, the moodily brilliant high school dropout studied the board, then maneuvered thus: he cabled Cuba's Na tional Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, asked if he might play the tournament by telephone or cable from New York. Havana has agreed, says Bobby's attorney, and if arrangements can be made through the World Chess Federation, Brooklyn's grand master will be moving...
European schools, plus increased travel, have somewhat closed the knowledge gap about the U.S., but Salzburg's freewheeling atmosphere still conveys a vital sense of the mood that motivates education in America. "For the first time in my whole six years of higher education, I've had a chance to talk to a professor man to man," recalls one Salzburg graduate, accustomed to Europe's academic formality. Opinions flow so freely at Salzburg that a Yugoslav seminarian once pulled a knife on an Italian. By contrast, a Norwegian fellow spotted a German at whom he had thrown...