Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China of all traces of its decadent past, while at the same time transforming the Chinese national character. His instrument was a vast totalitarian party and police apparatus that reaches into every facet of daily life, that controls what a Chinese can read, where he can travel, how he should live. Despite the omnipresence of this Orwellian machinery, many practices of the feudal past are observed. In the privacy of their homes, there are many peasant families who still pray to Kuan-yin, the goddess of mercy, and burn incense to their ancestors. Ouija boards are regularly consulted to foretell...
Norman Mailer, author (Armies of the Night), on his five trips to the altar: "I suppose I've married so often because we all travel in different ways. Being married to two different women is like being in two differnt countries...
...based Kaleidoscope Inc., which mailed 1 million catalogues, a weight of nine tons, found that an increasing number of women bought not only presents for other people but also a few gifts for themselves. Among Kaleidoscope's bestsellers: china, glasses, flatware, tablecloths. Also popular were luggage and other travel items. Several cataloguers reported an upsurge in sales of packaged cheese and fruits. A $5 chocolate bar divided into sections marked with their calories and called Sweet Revenge sold well, as did a $600 chocolate Monopoly...
Traditional and new recipes travel from arroz to zuppa...
Each of the budget's 3,000 spending programs?from the beekeepers' indemnity fund to the space shuttle?has its defenders in Congress, and even the most seemingly inconsequential of cutbacks will inspire protests. OMB is recommending, for example, that the U.S. Travel Service, set up under John Kennedy to lure foreign tourists, be scrapped completely. The saving would be only $14 million, and the travel industry is already lobbying against the cut. The budget bashers have also cut 1,100 men from a Justice Department request for 14,000 border-patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized...