Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Very often you go out of your way. You have to pick your route. If you drive to Texas you go as far west as you can before you turn south. When you travel through what we call hostile territory you take your chances. You drive and drive and drive...
...think I would be very patient either." He endorses federal intervention, with troops if necessary, when state and local officials fail to maintain law and order in racial disputes. He subscribes to the idea that the Constitution empowers the Federal Government to protect Negroes against discrimination in interstate travel. And he believes that race discrimination by proprietors of stores and public accommodations is morally wrong (but not unconstitutional...
...taxicabs and put-puts around on rented motor scooters. In the Virgin Islands he ducks the fancy restaurants and lunches on a sandwich at the beach. In Puerto Rico he chooses a poolside beer over a banana daiquiri. His credentials: an economy-flight air ticket and a fistful of travel-agency coupons. This is the summer tourist. And thrifty though he may be, he is creating a bustling new industry from Bermuda and the Caribbean west to Mexico-a sun belt better known for its winter lures than its summer tours. Says a busy Nassau hotel manager: "There has never...
...they are generally younger than the winter crowd and they catch on fast. If the available entertainment doesn't suit, they seek out their own fun. In Mexico, where summer travel is up 22% this year, tourists often forgo the resort delights of Acapulco (8,674 rooms) for a tour of the country's archaeological treasures or two weeks exploring a remote fishing village such as Puerto Vallarta (less than 1,000 rooms) on the West Coast. So popular is Puerto Vallarta now that the hotels are 90% full throughout the summer, and one part of town...
...lists his nonmusical recreations as "football, women, and driving fast in my white Thunderbird." Taking their name from a Leopoldville pub called the O.K. Bar, Franco and his crowd have since played in Europe and in every country in West and Central Africa except Ghana. When the "Okayistes" travel in Africa, the President of the host country often places a plane at their disposal. In every capital, crowds of Africans too poor to get inside the club where they are playing jam the dusty, unpaved streets outside and dance to the faint strains of their music. On one recent tour...