Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judas Priest, songs about false searches. Isis begins with the narrator leaving Isis, the Egyptian goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds. But the companion dies and instead of taking a body out of the pyramid, the narrator winds up throwing...
...should expect no official support or assistance from the State Department," Pell wrote to Classics player Martin F. Healy '77. "Under present circumstances the department probably would not validate your passports for travel...
...family and I have never contemplated leaving Israel, and my home remains in Tel Aviv, where I continue to be active as the artistic adviser of the Israel Festival and as a professor at Tel Aviv University. It is always from Israel that I travel abroad for my conducting activities in Europe and in the United States...
...Growth. Most of the boosts came in the midst of the recession, and would-be passengers saved money by staying home. Air travel in the U.S. had increased by 14% a year through the late '60s, then flattened out, but jumped 12% in 1972. It rose 6% in 1973, a mere 1% in 1974, and last year showed almost no growth at all. Pan Am, Eastern, American and Trans World Airlines plunged deep into the red. Not surprisingly, airlines ordered few new jets. Even United, the biggest U.S. airline and one that is still flying at a profit, could...
...resurgence of air travel could reverse the trend, but only if it were of startling-and unlikely-proportions. Says one Wall Street analyst: "The airlines could handle a 10% growth in passengers without buying a single new plane. They have been flying at least that many empty seats for a couple of years." As the aircraft manufacturers see it, new orders will not pick up before...