Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets of hovering cockroach-shaped spaceships, squads of yellow moon buggies and an array of enticing equipment from whatever passes for the Abercrombie & Fitch of intergalactic travel. Laser beams are flashed around like Saturday night specials...
...seat of his pants, Theroux has paid nostalgic homage to the pre-jet era, when men optimistically hoped to bind up the world with bands of steel. He also offers a reminder of how close they came to succeeding. If people rarely have the time, inclination or endurance to travel this way any more, Theroux suggests, the loss is theirs. To see the world slowly is to see oneself clearly. "After all," he concludes, "the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home...
...have led to some progress in the long-stalled negotiations between the two Germanys. In other respects, however, Honecker seemed totally unaffected by the spirit of Helsinki. Back home last week, he quickly declared that the Final Act notwithstanding, there would be no immediate easing of East German travel restrictions. For East Germany, he said bluntly, "security is and remains foremost...
...Soviet reaction to Helsinki, U.S. officials made much of the fact that Pravda and Izvestia published the entire text of the Helsinki declaration, including the Basket Three section dealing with civil liberties, travel and the exchange of ideas. Washington was disappointed, however, that the Soviets still seemed to be resisting the granting of multiple-entry visas to journalists-a commitment explicitly mentioned in Basket Three...
...replicas of covered wagons. For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills. The weekly wagon trains pull out from Quinter, 325 miles west of Kansas City, travel 110 miles round trip and, claims Wagon Ho!, never come within sight of a road or house...