Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basket Three is the major area of Western concern. It deals with increased human contacts between East and West, includes the flow of information, the right of travel, improved working conditions for journalists and cooperation in matters of culture and education. The fourth basket-by far the weakest-involves follow-up arrangements. It merely provides that senior officials of the signature nations will meet in 1977 to see how the agreements are being observed. The charter is regarded as a single document rather than as four linked but separate agreements (which the Soviets wanted, presumably to be able to play...
...must be a fancy transport for carrier pigeons. Equally baffled reactions greet Rotels wherever they turn up, from Tehran to Tierra del Fuego. Rotels? It is short for "rolling hotels," which may be the ultimate in no frill, if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Kenya world travel...
There are 42 Rotels based in twelve countries and all owned by Rotel Tours a West German travel firm. In the 17 years since its first Mercedes bus dormitory left Munich for Jerusalem, the company has booked more than 150,000 customers on trips through scores of nations on six continents. Thi year some 20,000 passengers will choose to leave the driving, the cooking, the sleeping arrangements and almost everything else to Rotels...
...appeal of rugged Rotel travel lies chiefly in its remarkably low cost. A month-long southern Africa tour costs only $1,500, for example, including the charter flight, and takes passengers 6,000 miles from Rhodesia through Mozambique to Capetown and up the west coast to Angola. A 30-day tour of the U.S. and Canada costs $1,600, also including air fare from Germany (it is not available to Americans because, say Rotel officials, they do not want to compete with U.S. travel operators). A highlight, according to company brochures, is Las Vegas, with "the world's most...
...grant, Harvard will keep $4.500 to cover Maxwell's tuition and fees. He will receive a $3,000 stipend and an additional $950 allowance for dependents and travel expenses...