Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration devised packages of restrictions limiting the uses to which American citizens could put their dollars abroad. First came a tightening of President Kennedy's "voluntary" restraints against bank lending and corporate investment; finally, last January, came outright controls on capital and a controversial plan to tax tourist travel...
...definition of a neo-Nazi could grow? The East Germans apparently have the N.D.P. list of members in Berlin and West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right to travel between West Berlin and West Germany. Their commanders in West Berlin also reminded the Russians that the Allies hold them, and not the East Germans, responsible for the free flow of travel to Berlin...
...ownership. According to Forte's estimates, Airport Catering Service will be picking up nearly a third of the top-class beds in Paris (840 out of 3,000). "We believe the days when you could offer air transport only are over. Now you have to offer a complete travel service," says Ron Spencer, B.E.A.'s representative on A.C.S.'s board. For B.E.A., the Paris hotels are a natural. The LondonParis route is about the most important for the airline, and first-class travel is growing faster than overall business...
Allsop's well-researched study-a matching piece to his earlier book, The Bootleggers-often seems as rambling as its subject. Like its heroes, it travels at a leisurely pace. But by and large, its heroes are amiable men to travel with. Even the self-righteous Allan Pinkerton, whose railroad detectives were the bane of post-Civil War hoboes, was a tramp once himself, and he never quite got over it. While the Pinks were running down the men they called "miserable communistic outcasts," Pinkerton himself felt compelled to confess "an irrepressible impulse to go a-tramping" again...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...