Word: travelling
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...abrogation of the peace treaty did not automatically restore the state of war, but merely left Taiwan free to act as it chose. The Japanese ambassador in Taipei and Taiwan's man in Tokyo continued to fly their national flags. Consulates still issued visas, but now called them "travel permits." While both sides will eventually withdraw representatives (the Japanese estimate a three-to-six-month phase-out), they will retain strong "unofficial" ties. The reason is simple economics. Taiwan's industry, growing at the healthy rate of 10% a year, takes 39% of its imports from Japan...
...three biggest of the eleven U.S. supplemental air carriers that operate both at home and abroad on a nonscheduled basis. Now that the Civil Aeronautics Board has given the go-ahead for charter lines to reach beyond "affinity" groups and compete against regularly scheduled carriers for business from individual travelers (TIME, Oct. 9), the nonskeds are planning a big campaign to promote mass, low-cost air travel...
...scheduled carriers are preparing to ask the courts to rescind the CAB'S decision. The ruling, they say, violates the law forbidding charter lines to sell tickets to individuals. In addition, the U.S. must negotiate with foreign governments for landing rights covering the new class of service, called Travel Group Charters (TGC). Negotiations with some nations should be relatively smooth and simple. But some governments, including France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, are wary of subjecting their national airlines to further low-priced competition, particularly on the North Atlantic route...
...something like it, is not likely to be grounded for very long. Low-cost charter flights on both scheduled and nonscheduled lines have been available to just about anybody in Europe for nearly a decade, enabling millions of middle-and low-income people who could not otherwise afford air travel to jet off to vacation spots at amazingly low package rates. Typical enticements: Londoners can buy a threeday, all-expense trip to Moscow this winter for $71 or spend four days on the Costa Brava in Spain for $34; Danes can fly to Rome for a week on $92, including...
Forty players travel with the team, which has an average age of 25. Many have played since they were schoolchildren, and play now mostly...