Word: travelling
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...Answer to Demons. Franco's new constitution is a direct outgrowth of Spain's industrial democracy and its expanding prosperity, which no one wants to endanger by abrupt or violent political change. His hope is that under an umbrella of constitutional monarchy, Spain will continue to travel along its present liberalizing course, mixing progress with caution. "Spain," declared Franco, "has her familiar demons-the demons of anarchy, negative criticism, lack of solidarity and extremism. The political system that best suits us is not one that cultivates and encourages these, but one that prevents and counteracts them...
Robert F. Byrnes, professor of history at Indiana University, said in a letter that Izvestia's "unwarranted and irresponsible" attack jeopardized a program of scholarly exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Byrnes is chairman of the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, an organization formed in 1955 to negotiate and administer exchanges of students and scholars with the Soviet Union...
...late as the 1920s and 1930s, American cooking was still a homely affair, and a reform was long overdue. The great shift in U.S. home cooking did not take place until the end of World War II rationing. The postwar travel boom brought millions of U.S. tourists back from Europe with their tastes broadened and sharpened by what they had eaten there. At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking...
...young students from the Dairen Mercantile Academy in Manchuria who decided to do just that. They had to see Mao, but the distance from Dairen to Peking is 600 miles. "They recalled scenes of the Red army on the Long March and hit upon an idea: Let's travel to Peking by foot." On Aug. 25, they set out, "holding high the Red-covered quotations of Chairman Mao, and with revolutionary vigor vowed: 'To make revolution, we must take the most arduous road!' " During the first ten days, the rain poured down and their ankles grew swollen...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had his own phrase for her-"a delightful ogre"-possibly because he once intervened on behalf of a friend denied a passport, had to report back: "Mrs. Shipley says no and that...