Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the loss to Penn was disheartening, the real disappointment came last Friday when the sixth-seeded Crimson squad was ousted from the Eastern Championships by the Big Red of Cornell, ending all possibility of travel to the nationals...
First the airlines use all kinds of cut-rate fares [Oct. 16] to encourage us to travel with them. Then they turn around and tell us that we are third-class travelers and don't deserve all the good treatment we have been getting. The source of the complaints, we are told, is the "crowd-weary, briefcase-toting business man or woman." How many of these business men or women paid for their own tickets? And how many of them are on expense accounts...
...your article on the U.S. trade mission to Japan, there was a very clear error. The trip was not "paid for entirely by Washington." The American businessmen paid all of their travel expenses, plus a $1,000 to $1,800 fee to the Department of Commerce to help defray the costs of the mission...
Just in case the Nobel Committee should be accused of being precipitate?peace, after all, is not quite at hand?it issued a citation reminding the world that its new laureates still had a long road to travel in their search for brotherhood. The purpose of the awards, said the committee, was "not only to honor actions already performed in the service of peace, but also to encourage further efforts to work out practical solutions." Both the winners had awaited the announcement with mounting excitement, and both pronounced themselves delighted...
Last week the largest retrospective of Mark Rothko's paintings went on view in Manhattan. Organized by Art Historian Diane Waldman for the Guggenheim Museum, it will travel later to Houston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. It consists of almost 200 paintings, spanning a career of more than 40 years. They run from his first tentative exercises in the manner of Milton Avery, his mentor, whose soft, vibrating patches of color had an indelible effect on Rothko; thence to the curious, stilted subway scenes of the 1930s, and to the totemic abstracts of vaguely identifiable figures-in-landscape which were...