Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's scandal, Wayne Hays was struggling to hold on to his chairmanships. Besides the Congressional Democratic Campaign Committee, he also heads the supremely important House Administration Committee. He has used that power to control pay raises for all congressional staff members and Congressmen's allowances for travel, telephone, postage and other items...
...eligible voters among the 2.5 million Italians working in other EEC countries, casting a ballot in the June 20-21 election is no simple matter. Since Italy makes no provision for absentee balloting, the worker must travel home, forfeit up to seven days of pay or vacation, spend about $80 on rail fare, and endure at least two days' riding each way on jampacked trains that provide standing room only. Yet more than 300,000 Italian workers traveled home for the country's 1972 general elections, and the ride-in vote is expected to be even larger this...
...international trains will be added on routes carrying migrant labor from Brussels, Stuttgart, Munich and other major centers. In addition, 192 special trains will be provided for Italian residents living elsewhere. Although voters must pay the cost of transport to the Italian border, government subsidies will allow them to travel free inside Italy and even get free tickets for ferries from the mainland to Sardinia, Sicily and other islands...
...issue of High Life, British Airways' freebie magazine. Turns out that Anne does not take offense at reporters' endless attentions-even, she says, "those fantastically inventive articles they print in France or Germany, which are so hilarious that no one could take them seriously." She likes to travel, but sightseeing is "purgatory" because "you seldom see anything-either too many people or too many press." With her husband Mark Phillips, she enjoyed visiting the U.S. in 1975, "but always in someone's private house or garden. They [the Americans] were very generous...
...contribution to U.S. news reporting. Thirty years ago the Pittsburgh Courier had 23 editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their communities at a time (as late as 1960) when the first rule impressed upon Baltimore Sun police...