Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passenger manifest on Cubana Airlines' twice-weekly Flight 464 from Havana to Mexico City included the usual Communist Chinese businessmen, returning Latin American "students," and privileged Cubans permitted to travel abroad. Among them was a chub by young woman with a Cuban diplomatic passport. "I came to see my sister Emma," she told the Mexican immigration man. He nodded idly and passed her through. He knew her by sight, and so did Mexican reporters. Fidel Castro's sister Juanita had made the trip before...
...joined by Justices Harlan and White in dissenting, was puzzled. "Which Communist Party member is worthy of trust?" he asked. "Since the party is a secret, conspiratorial organization subject to rigid discipline by Moscow, the Congress merely determined that it was not wise to take the risk which foreign travel by Communists entailed...
...whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted to the real. And what fascinated his eye was everyday America-gas pumps, factories, skyscrapers, movies, kitchen utensils, and "fast travel by train, auto, and airplane, which brought new and multiple perspectives." This very nearly makes him the legitimate father...
Tourists & Tinsel. Business generates itself. To demonstrate West Berlin's viability, the West German government encourages festivals and scientific seminars there; and to stimulate travel, it pays the airline subsidies up to 30% on each ticket. West Berlin businessmen, doing 80% of their business outside the city, shuttle continuously by air to West Germany. For foreign tourists in Germany, the Berlin Wall has become a sightseeing must. Pan Am, flying 15 older DC-6Bs that are more economical than Air France's Caravelles or BEA's Viscounts, profits handsomely on yearly revenues of around $15 million...
Advertised as "a James Bond tour of the world's 14 most sinful cities," this book is, instead, possibly the year's most flagrant fake. Five years ago, the London Sunday Times asked Author Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom...