Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story about the 1947 fire that destroyed much of his work-in-progress. Brooklyn Fire Fighter Michael Kearney rates fire helmets. Other stories focus on fire technology, fire medicine and firehouse cookery. Smith and his staff of ten plan to widen Firehouse's appeal with family features on travel and sports. But fire fighting will remain the heart of the magazine. Says Smith: "The writing has gotta be laconic, emotional, exciting. I like to see fire fighters in every story and know what they feel and think." The color photographs and art work will be vibrant with reds, yellows...
...American tourist is once again back on the road. Tethered by the recession to their backyards for the past two travel seasons, Americans by the millions are taking to wings and wheels this summer. With both the travel season and the recovery well under way, money in the bank, and the shock of 60?-70? per gal. fuel absorbed and (almost) forgotten, vacationers are swarming to favorite haunts in numbers near-and in some cases well above-prerecession levels. In the process, they are making cash registers whir and credit-card imprinters click from Honolulu to the Outer Hebrides...
...year, according to Government and travel-industry estimates, some 100 million Americans will have toured their own country, spending well above $85 billion, possibly $10 billion more than last year. They will spend another $10 billion abroad, rediscovering old holiday favorites, such as Britain, where the newest attraction is the $1.80 pound (down from $2.40 in 15 months). Even France, where the franc last week dropped to 20? for the first time in more than two years, was welcoming American tourists in big numbers once again. And many of those American travelers are likely to meet foreigners going the other...
Bicentennial Festivities. Encouraged by air fares that allow free stopovers in California, Midwesterners are flocking to the West Coast on their way to Hawaii. "It's like getting two vacations for the price of one," says a Chicago travel agent, whose business is up 12%. Once in Hawaii, travelers are staying longer. Says Maurice Kelley Jr., Continental Airlines' vice president for market development: "A ten-day stay is not nearly as unusual as it was a couple of years...
...SNAUF, still wild-eyed and now drunk, sums up the meaning of this bizarre mission in another way. "We must strive after something we fear and which we do not ask for," he tells Kelvin. "Man needs man." Here is the key. Solaris has not been dealing with space travel at all, but with man's emprisonment inside his own conscience, his own memories, his ties to the past. The ocean Solaris, Kelvin begins to understand, draws men's dreams from their subconscious during the night and makes them materialize, not in flesh and blood but in "neutrinos," an indestructible...