Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jove!" Boston-born, Grew was educated at Groton ('98) and Harvard ('02), was sent by his family to travel in the Far East, planned to return to the family's banking business. While in China, he shot a tiger in a cave - a feat that later enthralled big-game-hunting President Theodore Roosevelt. During that trip Grew became fascinated by life abroad and decided to enter the foreign service. By the time Teddy heard from a mutual friend about the tiger-slaying exploit, Grew was a $600-a-year clerk in the U.S. embassy in Cairo...
...Simons go out rarely, usually avoid the cocktail-party circuit. They enjoy visits from their two sons, Donald, 28, a University of Southern California graduate student, and Robert, 26, head of Hunt's vegetable procurement division, and their three grandchildren. They travel frequently, last week returned from a ten-day trip to Florence and Rome, where they soaked up art and opera and ate canelloni and Florentine steaks. At home, they prefer to entertain in small groups, mostly drawn from art and education circles, that make for lively conversation. Jean Fowles and her husband Edward at tended one meal...
Brown followed up his telegram by demanding that the printers turn in their "travel cards," which permit them to take jobs outside the city when on strike. Those who refused to do so, he implied, would lose their seniority. To date, about 100 out of 380 printers in the Sun unit have drifted back to work...
These two attitudes mesh so nicely that Watkins, son of the Providence Journal's publisher, is now attending Mrs. Fleming's unique precollege travel and European studies program at her American School in Switzerland. A Radcliffe graduate who wanted to give her three children both a European experience and preparation for a U.S. college, Mrs. Fleming nine years ago opened her own high school in a 17th century cobblestone Lugano villa. It now has 100 students, all Americans. Yet Mrs. Fleming still felt that her "students were not getting as much out of Europe as they should...
...Coal Mine. The plan lets U.S. high school graduates, free from all the pressures of being graded, alternately study in the relaxed resort city of Lugano and travel through Europe to quiz politicians, industrialists, cultural leaders, university students. "American students can't afford to be simply tourists-that day is over," explains the energetic director of the program, Ian D. Mellon, 31, an M.A. from New York University. The program's 88 students recently finished a two-week swing through Belgium and northeastern France. Their two dark green buses had carried them to Common Market headquarters in Brussels...