Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple, cheap and reliable. Most popular now in India is the "coil," a plastic, S-shaped loop inserted in the womb, which can be removed if the woman wants a child. India's first coil factory is already producing 15,000 loops a day, and government doctors travel through the countryside, explaining their use to the peasantry...
...polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses can't come between them. Such Abby Mannerisms help transform a substantial work of art into a second-rung work of artifice, never quite worthy of those Ship passengers who deserve to travel first class...
Yelps & Bruises. On one two-mile stretch of the Apple River near Somerset, Wis., as many as 2,000 tubers drift by on a sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
While the disastrous and seemingly endless war has disrupted South Viet Nam's fragile economy, it has increased the business of at least one company: the government-controlled commercial airline, Air Viet Nam. More and more Vietnamese travel or send their goods by air in order to avoid Viet Cong terror on roads and railroads...
Flying under wartime conditions is predictably difficult. Because civilian travel is banned at night, all flights must be crammed into daylight hours. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, the company's planes must queue up on the runways and wait their turn with long lines of Vietnamese Skyraiders and U.S. jet fighters, revving up for missions against the Reds. But the company has compiled a fair record of promptness and safety (one crash, in 1962), and its cabin service is noted in the Far East. First-class passengers dine on steaks, French wines and cheeses, served...