Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rich families simply send their children out of the country, frequently buying a certificate from a doctor stating that they need medical treatment only offered abroad. Some wealthy families even bribe South Vietnamese army helicopter pilots to fly their draft-eligible sons to Cambodia, where a laissez-passer for travel outside Southeast Asia can be purchased easily...
After much travail and travel (by bus) I arrived in Cambridge, passed thru the sacred gate. (Open ye the gate that the righteous nation, etc.) into the old yard. Incidentally--I am an unworthy member of the famous class of 1910. The old yard did look familiar. My old room in Hollis I was locked. This was on Wednesday, June 14. All the dormitories seemed to be locked so the so called "rest rooms" were unavailable. For an octogenarian, this was a problem...
...wealthy French importer named Bernard Fischler and his wife used to travel abroad with their little girl. Occasionally they wanted to take short side trips by themselves, but they could never find a satisfactory place to leave their daughter. "That," says Fischler, "is when I started dreaming of a beautiful hotel just for children...
...than a few shippers have packed up and left the troubled port. Last fall, United Fruit shifted its banana loading to Albany, 124 miles up the Hudson River. Company officials expect that distribution costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products...
...alliance with the 45-year-old Marquand, who fathered her two-month-old boy-Sanda was in constant rebellion against a stringent French Catholic upbringing. When her parents refused to let her attend an art school in Paris, she left home at 16 and became a model. Success, travel and money came almost instantaneously. Some nude pictures taken at that time found their way into Playboy only this year, much to her disgust. "The nudity was an act of personal vengeance against my very strict upbringing," she explains. "Today it seems stupid." And her other rumored acts of personal vengeance...