Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that I issued a similar Invitation to all the People back in 1829 (and I am honored that you and your Adjutants should choose to emulate me). However, the means of Publick convayence were decidedly inferior then to what they have become today. I do certify that, to travel from the Hermitage to Washington, I myself had to board a flatboat and then a steamboat, disembarking at Pittsburgh to complete another arduous journey by overland stagecoach. Even the lure of a day in the capital could not persuade more than a Fraction of my ardent partisans to undergo weeks...
...road gets no easier now for the hockey team, which should break into the national rankings by virtue of last night's manhandling. ECAC hockey is about as friendly competition as a race for a spot on the Boston school committee. Harvard will travel to Northeastern for a game on the 29th, and the begin a three-game homestand, facing off against Providence, Penn, and the Superblades from BU on December...
Meanwhile military pressure mounted on white Rhodesians. There are at least 3,000 nationalist guerrillas now operating inside the country, and isolated farmhouses near the Mozambique border come under attack almost nightly. Snipers so imperil the roadways that many Rhodesian trucks and autos now travel in convoys (see below). According to Salisbury, daring raids by Rhodesian army units into Mozambique earlier this month destroyed six guerrilla staging camps and 70 tons of war matériel. Hundreds of freshly trained insurgents, however, are poised to cross into Rhodesia now that the summer rains have started...
...been killed in early November. One major guerrilla goal has been to cut Rhodesia's rail and road links with South Africa-vital conduits for the fuel and ammunition that Salisbury needs. To assess the threat, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs accompanied one of the twice-daily convoys that travel along Route A-4 from Fort Victoria to Beitbridge on the South African border. His report...
...already emigrated to the U.S., the Israeli government has moved to force most refugees in the future to come to Israel. As the Israelis explain it, their basic problem is with the way station in Vienna, where Russian Jews arrive in the West by train. Nearly all emigrants must travel on Israeli visas to meet Soviet requirements for exit. Those wishing to proceed to the U.S., however, may stop in Vienna and request rerouting to the U.S. They apply to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and other American humanitarian organizations for financial and practical assistance...