Word: travellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realities of Franco's rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone...
...Army Signal Corps announced last week that it is sending Teletype messages by ultrahigh frequency radio bounced off the moon. Transmitted from Benson, Ariz., the waves speed to the moon and reflect from its scratchy surface back to Encino, N. Mex., a total distance of 480,000 miles. Travel time: 2.6 sec. The message could have been received about as well at any place where the moon was visible...
...John Mecklin, an old hand at censorship and canceled flights that leave correspondents stranded during crises, stuck close to his Beirut headquarters and the cable office. He was on hand to meet the U.S. Marines when they landed in Lebanon. Out of hjs background of 80,000 miles of travel over the past 2½ years, he was also able to contribute comprehensive and incisive commentary on all the week's events. Mecklin's current passport, two years old, already has 36 extra pages of visas...
Warfield went to Warwick at the invitation of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which since the war has underwritten a mammoth musical program in the sparsely settled bush areas. The country currently has six ABC symphony orchestras. Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback. In addition, the Broadcasting Commission has sponsored bush tours by such world-famed soloists as Violinist Isaac Stern and Pianist Eugene Istomin...
...Travel Agent. In Memphis, George Gattas hurried to the airport in an attempt to get two friends aboard a Southern Airways DC-3, arrived slightly late, raced the plane across the tarmac as it taxied before takeoff, blocked its path with his station wagon, accomplished his mission, gladly paid a $26 fine...