Word: travelling
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...views of Britain's Western allies. "Detente means little if it is not reflected in the daily lives of our peoples," he told the delegates. "There is no reason why, in 1975, Europeans should not be allowed to marry whom they want, hear and read what they want, travel abroad when and where they want, meet when they want. To deny that proposition is a sign not of strength but of weakness...
Many Americans have found that; holiday in their own country is now less expensive than almost any foreign foray, whether they buy the cheapest ticket -the Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced...
Indeed, regarding vacation travel as an all but inalienable right, few Americans have stayed entirely in their own backyards. Many who usually escape for a month in summer have taken only two weeks this year and plan to get away again next winter. A pair of New Yorkers, for example, are toying with the notion of an off-season $998-per-person package holiday in Russia, which 5,057 Americans visited in the first four months of this year-an increase of 42% over the same period last year. In the spirit of Apollo-Soyuz, the New Yorkers figure, Brezhnev...
...budgets also help cover presidential expenses. For example, if Ford gives a dinner for Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the State Department foots the bill for the state dinner. In addition, such expenses as the operation of Air Force One, which Ford uses now exclusively for his travels, are paid by the Air Force. Thus the President gets all of his travel free...
After it closes in Washington Sept. 9, the show will travel to New York's Knoedler gallery, which, as it happens, is partly owned by Hammer, then to Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston. If it is not comprehensive, it is a superb sampling-a cabinet des arts that Catherine herself might have delighted...