Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boudin feels his work in the passport cases of the fifties gave him his strong civil liberties orientation. During these years the government refused passports to individuals who wouldn't cooperate with Congressional committees. The key issue was whether travel was a right or a privilege. After eight years of litigation, in a case argued before the Supreme Court, Boudin secured the right of the individual to travel...
James Bryant, a spokesman for Amtrak, said that even a 25 per cent increase in seating capacity at Thanksgiving was not enough to alleviate the overcrowding that resulted from people who decided to travel by rail because of gasoline shortages...
...travel situation looks particularly grim for the Christmas holidays because of the strike at Trans World Airlines and public uncertainty about air travel. Airline officials, though, are promising air service at the same level as last year...
...lasting changes in American habits of thinking and acting. Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni believes that a prolonged shortage will produce a decline in egalitarianism and the reassertion of privilege in America. "Money will make the difference in the future," he says. "Only people with money will be able to travel and buy Cadillacs. The poor part of society will end up paying a disproportionate share." Boston University Sociologist S.M. Miller asserts that the rationing of commodities like gas and oil will bring a rationing of opportunities as well. "Americans are going to have to lead a more planned existence...
Martha R. West '74, director of HSA travel services, said she hopes to know the final status of the two flights by Monday. "I'm just as confused as anybody is at this point," she said last night...