Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like thousands of other proprietors of motels, restaurants, travel agencies, airlines, resorts and ski areas from New Orleans to Nice, Fullmer is a casualty of the world fuel shortage. The traveling public, beset by uncertainty over flight cancellations, filling-station closings and gasoline-rationing schemes, is staying home in droves. As a result, the travel industry, which accounts for $60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, is hav ing one of its most chilling winters...
...first view of La Paz, Bolivia's capital and largest city, approached from the west, is perhaps one of the most spectacular moments in world travel. From the border with Peru the bus jaunts along a stumbly dirt road for three hours through the barren spaces of the altiplano, the 14,000-foot-high plateau that covers the western third of Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts...
...Petaluma ordinance, they argued, limited the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to travel. They also contended that a fence-them-out approach would put an "undue burden" on interstate commerce, specifically the commerce of producing housing. Moreover, the rule would force housing prices up, imposing a harsh penalty on families of modest means and violating their right to equal protection under...
Federal Judge Lloyd Burke concluded, "No city may regulate its population growth numerically so that residents of other cities cannot enter and establish residency there." He based his decision on the right to travel, apparently the first judge to do so in such a case. Petaluma will probably appeal, making it likely that the Supreme Court will eventually have to sort out the competing interests of two treasured American values: local self-rule and unrestricted mobility...
Britain's 280,000 mine workers earn between $57 and $83 a week for the time they spend in the bowels of the British earth, working to supply the nation with critical fossil fuel. They are not paid for the time it takes them to travel up and down the mine shafts. The miners are demanding an average $20-a-week pay hike, but Heath is willing to give them no more than a $6-a-week raise...