Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travel agent for the Inaugural odyssey was Maxine Reese, who, while managing the Carter campaign headquarters in the Plains rail depot last June, had started arranging the bash. "Jimmy told me he was going to win, so I figured we had to hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress...
With the ink barely dry on the 1977 brochures, the outlook for spring/summer air travel is becoming clear. Flying is in for a big boost. One major reason: the new ticketing arrangement called Advance Booking Charters, which enables passengers to get low-cost round-trip air transportation with fewer restrictions than on any of the previous charter plans. Authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board last October, ABCs are now being pushed aggressively by both scheduled and nonscheduled airlines, notably by Britain's ebullient charter operator Freddie Laker...
...bonanza for budget-conscious vacationers, ABCs are the latest addition to the confusing alphabet soup of special fares with which the airlines have been wooing cost-conscious travelers (see chart). Ironically, ABCs came into being last fall because of politics as much as economics-specifically, Gerald Ford's election-year advocacy of reduced Government regulation. The CAB yielded to pleas by the charter airlines to allow all carriers to offer, through travel agents, a more flexible plan: seats booked 30 to 45 days in advance, but no prepaid hotel accommodations and minimal restrictions on length of stay...
...accept ABC flights. Nonetheless, about 50% of all charter applications received by the CAB since October have been for ABC trips, competitively priced as much as 40% below regular economy rates on scheduled flights. (In 1975 U.S. charter or supplemental airlines held about 10% of the total passenger travel market between Europe and the U.S.) Hotelkeepers, who stand to lose since ABC passengers are not required to buy ground accommodations, remain unperturbed. Says Arnold Orenstein, general manager of the Puerto Rico Sheraton in San Juan: "The more people travel, the better...
...schools they include courses (sometimes for credit, sometimes not) that would not be considered academically appropriate during the regular school year. At Smith College, for example, plumbing is on the January bill of fare, while St. Lawrence University in upstate New York offers ski conditioning and fly tying. Travel is often an essential and expensive element. At a price of $1,555 each, Adelphi University is sending 20 students from Long Island to India to study historic sites where the country's religions originated. Oxford College, a division of Emory University, offers a trip to the Yucatan to study...