Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the New Journalism had been invented as a phrase. Wilson was one of its most accomplished practitioners. In his reportage and in his travel books, Wilson proved himself as vivid and dramatic a writer as any novelist while also demonstrating that literature need not shrink from confronting social crises. Later, when Wilson turned to autobiographical essays as a fresh way of exploring the meanings of American life, he did so with a dignity and thoroughness that would put present-day first-person confessionalists to shame...
...golden goose. On the average, a new Holiday Inn is opened every three days-or one new room every 36 minutes. Already Wilson has 1,405 inns in 50 states and 20 foreign countries or territories. The inns are a catalyst and a reflection of the age of mass travel; last year alone they served 72 million guests. The Holiday Inn sign, a 43-ft.-tall tower in screaming green, orange and yellow, is almost inescapable on American highways, and it is well on its way to becoming a Pop symbol of U.S. enterprise abroad...
...Intertower, a joint venture of Cyrus Eaton Jr. and Occidental Petroleum, to put up 36 inns in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; in most cases, the governments will own the inns. Encouraged by the talk of expanded East-West trade that surrounded the Nixon-Brezhnev summit, Wilson plans to travel to Moscow, probably in July, to sound out authorities about putting up motels in the Soviet Union. Says William Stratton, a Holiday Inns franchise director: "We haven't got to Antarctica yet, but who knows...
...tell" variety, generally shabby and faintly disreputable places that catered mainly to casual lovers and transient salesmen. Wilson was among the first to foresee that the fast post-World War II rise in U.S. personal income would lead to a rapid expansion in both business and leisure travel. He also sensed that people on the move would prefer to stay in lodges that offered, in addition to a place to park their car, a standardized level of cleanliness, comfort and food at moderate prices. (In 1971, the average price for a room in a Holiday...
...profits of most motel chains in the past couple of years, the lodging business is now surging in the midst of a sharp economic rise. An alltime high of 123.5 million Americans will hit the road on overnight trips this year. Meanwhile, a record 14.7 million foreign visitors will travel to the U.S. Every night, close to 200,000 of these travelers will stay in Holiday Inns...