Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a period of petulance over criticism of its record on human rights, Moscow early this year switched to a policy of visible compliance with Helsinki through what are known in diplomatic parlance as "small steps," such as eased travel restrictions on foreign newsmen and inviting Western observers to Soviet military exercises. More recently, the Soviets have been marking time on new Helsinki initiatives of their own, while rapping Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, which broadcast into Russia and Eastern Europe, and Washington's public opposition to Communist participation in Western European governments, as violations of the Helsinki...
Gauld believes all schools could benefit from his methods. For a while he gave up his headmaster post to travel around the country lecturing about Hyde, and he is now writing a book about it. As part of its proselytizing effort, the school also put on a traveling Bicentennial road show called America's Spirit. Starring Hyde teachers and pupils, the show played in Broadway's Circle in the Square theater because the theater's director, Ted Mann, is a Hyde parent...
...through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business travel...
...like protective covering, deployed a 53-ft.-diameter parachute to slow its descent, and shortly before touchdown fired its retrorockets to brake its fall further. Engineers at J.P.L. watched nervously as the signals on their consoles marked the completion of each stage of the landing procedure. Because the signals, traveling at the speed of light, took nearly 19 min. to travel from Viking back to earth, scientists at J.P.L. were only too well aware that while they waited, the lander had already met disaster- or made history- on Mars...
...have always applauded Mr. Nader as the consumer's advocate, but having spent several years sweating away as a travel agent, I have no sympathy for his being bumped...