Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the children headed back to school, the fair becomes an adult festival. Fair buffs have learned to travel to Flushing Meadow in comfortable shoes and with a survival kit of essential items: sunglasses, sweater, tissues, folding raincoat -and folding money. For newcomers, the most essential items are forethought and a daily itinerary. Those who have time to explore it section by section will find the fair's 646 acres worth the effort. Some forethoughts...
...good travel agent will tell, Hong Kong is a paradise of sights and sounds and is perfumed with the scents of opium, spices, incense and the special sensuous fragrance of warm silk. The tourist who arrives by plane and is whisked along an airy boulevard to an air-conditioned hotel may not disagree -until he explores the island colony. Then he will wonder why it was ever called Hong Kong, which means Fragrant Harbor...
...took five years to build, and skirts the sea for most of the way; its architects did away completely with grade crossings, designed 548 bridges, 66 tunnels and 57 miles of elevated right of way. The specially built streamlined trains are models of luxury and, unlike most Japanese trains, travel over standard gauge tracks...
More leisure, prosperity and travel have created so many shutterbugs throughout the world that the makers of cameras and film are frantically vieing with one another to wintheir allegiance. The latest struggle involves more than two dozen firms, ranges over three continents - and concerns a new camera concept that is almost certain to transform the industry...
Brophy has no time for the standard academic quibbles: who was who in real life, whether the scenes should be played in a different order. Her concern is with interpretation. She presents her bold views with the disarming intellectual idiosyncrasy of a fine English travel book. And that, in a way, is what she has written: a trip on a Black Ship to Hell through the middle of Glyndebourne...