Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with thick glasses. One day we were out in the middle of the course, and I came across a man who had stopped and was kneeling down, looking for his glasses. I believe his name was Leo Carroll, a real intellectual who gave me my first lecture on space travel. Unfortunately, he couldn't find his glasses...
...Parliament, the attitude toward security remains low-key, if cautious. The Special Branch of Scotland Yard provides one plainclothes security officer for the Prime Minister and each member of the royal family. Similar protection is available to any Cabinet officer and to the leader of the opposition party. Travel routes within the country are never announced in advance, except for walkabouts during campaigns or royal processions, and in those instances unarmed local police officers augment a small, discreetly armed security force...
...newsmen were permitted to witness last week's executions in Spain. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, however, was one of two foreign journalists in a group of reporters allowed to travel to Hoyo de Manzanares, where three of the men accused of killing policemen, Alonso, Sanz and Sánchez-Bravo, were shot by a firing squad. Scott's report...
...50th year of his reign, the Emperor still has that urge to travel. This week he and Empress Nagako, 72, finally begin a sentimental and ceremonial journey to the U.S. Their 13-day visit will be a carefully orchestrated imperial progress, part state occasion, part tourist rubbernecking. For ten months, ever since President Ford formally extended a renewed invitation to the Emperor during his visit to Japan last year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping...
...unfair, I can see how having to travel from Hilles to William James in under seven minutes would require some fast moving, but at the same time, residents of Radcliffe are expected to do this daily. And this kind of travelling is fine if you have two hours between classes for lunch, but for those living at Radcliffe who have what amounts to fifty minutes for lunch, the bias against them is phenomenal, as it is becoming increasingly hard to find a Harvard House in which to eat lunch. Eliot, Adams, and Lowell have been closed to unaccompanied non-residents...