Word: travellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely in peacetime had a Cabinet session been so charged with talk of wide-ranging travel, wide-ranging hopes-and a mood of crossed fingers. From the two dozen members of the President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers...
...Travel-weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...only hooker was that contestants would have to respect local regulations, e.g., the London law forbidding helicopter ascents from the street in front of Marble Arch. Added the Daily Mail, tongue only a trifle in cheek: Who knows? Someone might even find a way to improve the current travel time between Arch and Arc, which now averages about three hours: 1 hr. 5 min. by airliners, 1hr. 55 min. in customs and traffic-crawling airport buses...
Arriving aboard Turkey's S.S. Istanbul (he refuses to travel on Israeli boats because the Jewish crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried...
...days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president of a major U.S. railway: "We could solve all our financial problems if we had no featherbedding." One big reason for the high cost of U.S. houses is that carpenters resist using prefabricated panels, painters resist automatic sprayers (sometimes by demanding double wages), and bricklayers and plasterers...