Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could certainly afford a grander way of life, but prefers to sock her money away in "safe investments. I found out early in the game there is freedom in money. You can buy time with it." One extravagance Lauren indulges in recklessly is travel. Ignoring the advice of agents and business associates, she takes off as frequently as she can for far points-Malaysia, Africa, Nepal, Central America. The choice is simple. "We just find out where it is tourists are absolutely not supposed to go and strike out for there...
Eventually, for one reason or another, the road movie died out. Perhaps it was a gradual waning in viewer interest for travel stories that caused the demise of the road movie. Or maybe it was simply the wholesale depletion of the number of interesting places left to visit. But whatever the cause, road movies passed out of the active film world to live out a peaceful retirement as staples of the late, late, late show...
...need for Presidents to travel is self-evident, but it can be asked whether motion is replacing substance. Nixon's recent cross-country swing was an engineered spectacle that started with his speech in the Oval Office, sped south to Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...
...lifted when he got on his magic carpet. Lyndon Johnson's facial coloring improved as he swept skyward in his mad dashes round the world. Even when Nixon is earthbound in California, he often sets out for a spin along the roaring California freeways. The amateur psychologists who travel with Nixon insist that in part he is running from his problems, seeking some magical vista where solutions will appear. They never...
...lures of presidential travel is the miracle of the machine itself. It is all so beautiful. From the fleet of jets and helicopters, through the limousines and boats, right down to the golf carts and snowmobiles, there is not another area of Government that works better...