Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternative to this needless American madness emerged last August in the form of a legitimate and remarkably inexpensive air travel club called Freelandia. Started from the personal pocket of a longhaired ex-Wall Street millionaire, the California-based club donates its profits to charity, serves organic foods, offers bargain-priced crosscountry and trans-Atlantic flights, and promises a safe landing...
...attorney for the FAA in San Francisco has said that Freelandia is entirely legal, as long as the club sticks to the charter of air travel clubs, which stipulates, among other things, that it cannot advertise...
Moss realizes that the lure of low rates and really enjoyable air travel might eventually pose a threat to the profit-making entrenched airlines. So the club sticks carefully to the rules, thus preventing a possible dispute by irritated airlines, and employs lawyers in Washington, New York and Los Angeles to insure that Freelandia doesn't lose it's nonprofit status...
Part of the March 2 increase involves a rising charge for each piece of second-class mail. But the increase is also based on a complicated formula involving a magazine's ratio of ads to editorial content, its weight and size, and the distance it must travel. Thus no two magazines will be affected in precisely the same way, but all that use the mails are hurting. Says National Review Publisher William Rusher: "Journals of opinion traditionally lose money. The National Review is a journal of opinion, so the postal rates won't eat into our profits-they...
Padre Ray was to travel to one of the tiny outlying communities around Morochata, where he was training a catechist to administer masses and perform marriages and baptisms. All of the campesinos in the area were ostensibly Catholics, having been converted by missionaries like Ray over the decades. But they still lived the traditional life of the Quechua Indians, and were thus often Catholics only in name, still believing in the ancient pagan gods. El padre wanted to see to it that they became good practicing Christians...