Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primaries have begun to blur somewhat, like cities watched from a headlong cross-country train. But if the grueling and expensive system has any merit, it is that it at least determines which candidates travel well. Last week, as the sheer surprise of George McGovern's early primary successes was wearing off, the central questions of his candidacy emerged more clearly: Can he command a winning national constituency once his stands on the issues become widely known and debated? Can his coalition of the discontented widen its embrace sufficiently to win him a nomination? An election...
...Dong, the Premier, who has stayed on in Hanoi, told a journalist: "Of course they can blow all of this up [meaning his offices]. And then what? That's not what's going to change the course of history." Then he talks about the future: plans for travel abroad to establish ties for cooperation with all those who showed understanding for [North] Viet Nam during these terrible, decisive hours. In ministry files, partly evacuated to caves on high plateaus, are plans for the Viet Nam of tomorrow, "reunited by the Vietnamese alone," as Pham Van Dong puts...
...Christmas or Easter. They deny the Trinity. But they believe steadfastly in the tithe-so much so that each member is expected to set aside three tithes, or tenths, of his gross income. One-tenth is for church headquarters. One-tenth is for the member's travel expenses to church festivals. And, every few years, yet another tenth is required for "widows and orphans." The church monitors the tithes by computer; one member caught cheating was sentenced to tithe double for the rest of his life...
...Chances are that HSA will revamp its operation and go into the travel business as a whole," he added. "I don't think we're going to walk away from the travel business...
Late last spring, the University started fighting a losing battle when it authorized HSA as the sole organizer of Harvard charter flights. But when Uni-Travel, an outside travel agency, offered a charter flight to Acapulco this spring, the University couldn't find the student who was Uni-Travel's Harvard liason. He would have been subject to University discipline...