Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petty, bullying tyrant over House committee staff members and more menial employees that Hays became most hated. He has used his Administration Committee, which oversees such mundane but vital matters as Congressmen's parking spaces, travel allowances, restaurant service and custodial help, to satisfy his vindictive whims. Annoyed that elevator operators were sitting when he had to stand, he ordered their jump seats removed. Irked at House barbers, he raised haircut prices and banned tipping. Mad at the press, he temporarily refused to sign pay vouchers for some press-gallery employees. Hays gained extra influence as chairman...
...USING FORCE TO QUELL RIOTS. Despite the impression left by many news reports, we have handled the disturbances with a great deal of restraint and patience. In spite of the disturbances, we are maintaining open bridges for travel between Jordan and the West Bank; free traffic is moving throughout Israel and the West Bank. No capital punishment has been imposed. By and large, there has been free access for newsmen to report the disturbances, which is quite extraordinary if you consider that Israeli democracy is operating in a state...
...will students--and many other fans, for that matter--be aroused by the fact that every other year those of us south of the New Jersey Turnpike will have to travel to Baker Field to see the multiflex offense. In the past we could go to Philadelphia one year and Old Nassau the next...
...class list itself resembled an all-Ivy sports roster this year. Number one tennis star Gary Reiner and linksman Alex Vik were among the 50 students enrolled. Vik, who will travel to the NCAA cham-pionships next week, tuned up his game with a friendly "challenge" of Professor Jones at the Myopia Golf Course last week...
Finally, in 1974 he broke his silence with two works. Baroque Concert, a novella, is a fantasia about music and travel in the 18th century. Reasons of State, now translated into English, is the epic story, executed in comic opera style, of the downfall of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean nation around the time of the First World War. An enlightened despot who prefers vacationing in Paris to tyrannizing his country, the unnamed Head of State returns to suppress revolts by trusted generals, crush his civilian opposition, and reflect the tedium...