Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie should be moved into her Georgetown home by mid-January. But what then? Travel abroad? A political role in 1964, as was rumored last week? No, said Secretary Turnure. Mrs. Kennedy plans to observe a full year of mourning for her husband, will dress in black, appear at no public engagements...
...attempt at improved mobility, South Viet Nam's generals have yet to stage any spectacular feats against the Viet Cong although they have plans on the drawing boards, and government forces last week captured more weapons than they lost for the first time in months. Everywhere one travels, and the only safe mode of travel is by helicopter, the countryside is a dismal sight of actual or threatened Viet Cong control. In the delta to the south, and in two or three provinces around Saigon, there is no doubt of who controls the boondocks. Of mounting concern...
...does the electronic voice penetrate plaster when human voices don't? Sound engineers offer several reasons. The ordinary give-and-take of human conversation varies greatly in its volume level, but the announcer touting jet travel and the interview lady spouting praise at an author are merciless in their demand for attention. They sound as loud as someone addressing a meeting, which, after all, is what they are doing. Furthermore, for obscure sociological reasons, the cheaper the radio, the louder it is played. And a radio's ability to make the tables and walls it touches vibrate along...
...tunnel. From the U.S.'s Restaurant Associates, Cousin Elie recently bought an interest in France's largest casino, at Divonne-les-Bains. Cousin Edmond himself has poured $5,000,000 into France's plushest Alpine resort at Megève, has large shares in a European travel club (100,000 members and 17 vacation villages), and has helped finance hotels for Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp. Besides his controlling or significant interests in two dozen other enterprises-the biggest machine-tool company in Brazil, supermarkets and mutual funds in Europe, a pipeline from...
...Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus can have things done the way we like them wherever...