Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen schools as a high school senior in Portland, Ore. "They flash you bills when you get there," he reports. "You get an expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada are put up at a Strip hotel, given a tab for meals, and sometimes receive limited gambling money...
...chain of being. Astronauts' bootprints left on the moon stir his imagination like "contemporary ziggurats," places "where the gods came down to earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will be only one generation that will be first to explore the Solar System, one generation for which, in childhood, the planets are distant and indistinct discs moving through the night sky, and for which, in old age, the planets...
Thanks to Arabs, environmentalists, and Nader's Raiders, among others, the long American love affair with the big car has distinctly chilled. In the face of fuel cutbacks and a growing resistance to new jetports, air travel is more parlous than ever. As the clickety-clackers have insisted for decades, there is no realistic alternative to mass transportation in the U.S. but the nation's once-magnificent railroad system. Even given the highly unlikely return of abundant fuel, the U.S. could not indefinitely tolerate or afford the poisonous pollution, cost, congestion, racket and uglification of a transportation system...
...already exist. As the authors also point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail system needs only to be rescued from shocking decrepitude at a fraction of the cost of the car-plane juggernaut...
...woman of the seventies." Playgirl's editor Marin Scott Milam describes her readers as "intelligent, practical, honest; women who are comfortable with their sexuality who want to know more about everything." Both attempt to market a general interest magazine with erotic overtones. Both have the usual gossip, fashion, fiction, travel, and "how-to" sections. Depending on the magazine, the erotic overtones are either sprinkled lightly in one or two places (Playgirl) or squarely anchored to most articles (Viva...