Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted them to know I was friendly." Most visitors leave convinced that rooms are no longer bugged, nor do they have any sense of being followed. They all agree, however, that plans should be made well in advance, and a plan once made should be adhered to. The Soviet travel bureaucracy takes a dim view of impulsiveness...
Intourist has a near-monopoly on tourist bookings, having contracts with some 80 North American travel agencies. At least a month should be allowed for confirmation of bookings, and the whole trip must be paid for in advance. The deluxe plan of travel is the only way that individuals and couples may go during July and August, and it is a bargain. For $35 a day ($50 for couples) the deluxe tourist receives coupons providing for lodging, meals (breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner), three hours' use of car and driver and Intourist guide-in practice, the guide will work...
...preparing for the trip, Nagel's U.S.S.R. Travel Guide ($8.95) is indispensable. Trying to master the Russian language in a hurry is hopeless, but it is a good idea to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. Many words, especially on signs, are really French or English; pecTopaH simply spells "restaurant," Tede^OH spells "telephone." It also helps to memorize about a dozen words or phrases such as "please" (pronounced puzhzal'sta), "thank you" (spaseeba), "now" (saychas), and "then" (patom), for restaurant ordering. The larger Intourist restaurants have menus in four languages including English, and it is a good idea...
...discomfort of airlines struggling with summertime hordes of travelers, some jet-age gyps have discovered that they can literally write their own tickets. The tickets, stolen from travel agencies, have turned up over the past few months in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Las Vegas and other U.S. cities, as well as London and Madrid. Trans World Airlines, for one, has been fleeced of nearly $100,000. Police report that the cost of the write-your-own-ticket racket may come to $4,000,000 or more in lost airline revenues...
...caper is the fact that travel agencies, weary of handling different tickets for some 40 U.S. airlines, in 1965 began using a single form that can be filled out for any flight on any carrier. Crooks liked the idea too-and heisted 5,000 blanks last winter from three agencies in New York and California. The hot tickets are complete with forged agency stamps and authentic air-linese ("ORD" for Chicago's O'Hare Airport, "FCO" for Rome's Fiumicino Airport). One turned up for an around-the-world trip valued...