Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
...Speed of travel has made VD an international problem: a man may pick up infection in London one night, pass it on in Manhattan two nights later...
Fifteen years ago Novelist Aldous Huxley regaled British and American wits with a prophetic novel entitled Brave New World. In this caustic, chilly fantasy of a world-to-come (A.D. 2,500), babies were born in class-distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal rule. People swallowed a tabloid of happiness when they felt blue, worshiped a mechanistic god named "Our Ford," and believed that sexual fidelity was obscene. Faced with the alternatives of being Utopian or regressing into a squalid primitivism, the unhappy hero of Brave New World chose to hang himself...
Rushing back & forth from Cambridge to Washington and Los Alamos (some 250,000 miles of travel in all), he demonstrated his tremendous physical and mental resilience. He was probably right in saying: "I could be perfectly happy with a permanent Pullman ticket." Whenever people marveled at his bounce, kerosene-circuiting Conant kidded: "What's the matter? Running out of kerosene...
...Undergraduates from colleges in New England will have an opportunity to continue their studies or travel outside the United States but within the Western Hemisphere, according to the terms of the Boston Globe World Warr II Memorial Fellowships, which will be reopened to eligible applicants during the first two weeks of October...