Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More importantly, legal questions can arise, particularly in relation to student visas. Complicated government regulations concerning employment, travel permits and annual alien registration must be adhered...
Initially, there had been hopes that the fare increases, which are still subject to approval by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board and foreign regulatory agencies, would be accompanied by a simplification of the crazy-quilt system of airline rates that now leaves passengers and travel agents alike confused. On the North Atlantic routes, there is a total of nine different lATA-approved rates, ranging from the standard first-class and economy tariffs through excursion fares to group-and age-related reduced rates. Those fares do not include the various charter deals now offered by many of the airlines and travel...
While perplexing, the crazy quilt can sometimes mean good travel bargains, provided the passenger and travel clerks can figure out the best rate. A ticket bought two months in advance under one scheme enables a traveler to fly from New York to Paris and then return to New York from Madrid for only $338, v. $658 standard economy fare...
...above storms or ice or fog . . . we will cross from New York to London in six hours." He lived to see that prophecy improved on with the SST. But in his later years he urged less emphasis on speed and more on vertical-takeoff planes, which could cut travel time by operating from airports near city centers...
This eccentric, evocative film is less a documentary than a cinematic diary. Two men travel to Cuba. One, named Jeff Sterling, is a wealthy businessman who has made a killing in communications, specifically in television. The other is the former Prime Minister of Newfoundland, Joseph R. Smallwood, older than Sterling by at least a couple of decades, a dedicated Socialist. For Smallwood, the trip is practically a pilgrimage; for Sterling, it is a curiosity and a challenge. While Smallwood admires Cuban schools, medical care and housing programs, Sterling grouses about forced labor and compares socialism unfavorably with the free-enterprise...