Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colorgrey. Grey streets, grey buildings, grey skies, grey smoke, grey cement, even grey snow. The weight of all of the buildings of New York is on your shoulders as you walk down the street. New York has boxes where people work, boxes under the ground where people travel, and boxes where people live. The isolation and atomization continues out on to the street. In a small Western town, you can say hello to anyone. In New York, people are still encased in glass when they touch the sidewalks...
Fifteen Harvard seniors have been awarded fellowships that will enable them to travel or study in a foreign country next year...
...Frederick Sheldon and Henry Russell Shaw fellowships each provide their four winners with $3200 to supplement their education through foreign travel...
...industries are not satisfied with unskilled blacks and increasingly move to the suburbs. Since blacks have less to spend, many stores also move, abandoning their premises to store-front churches. As local jobs decline, Chicago's blacks must spend more-not only for higher rents, but also to travel farther to work (an average eight miles v. six miles for whites). Only about 15% have cars. In addition, the most available jobs for ghetto blacks are the city's worst: janitor, forklift loader, punch-press operator, hospital orderly...
...Travel is a relatively new but fast-growing pastime for blacks, who now spend well over $500 million a year on vacations. Outside the Deep South, few places these days are closed to blacks with enough money to pay their way. Restaurants are open, as are most hotels. Still, blacks feel unwelcome in many U.S. resorts. The more affluent (those with $7,500-$15,000 incomes) are spending anywhere from $500 to $1,500 on two-week vacations abroad. One Southern travel agency alone reports that over 500 blacks from its community have already signed up for round-trip tickets...