Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailing teams continues operations from the fall, but big shots on the Charles travel in shells, powered by oars. If you have physical endurance and any sort of aptitude for the sport, you should be able to make one of the twelve lightweight or heavyweight, freshmen or upperclass men's boats. Similar opportunities prevail at Weld Boathouse, where the Radcliffe light and heavyweights ship out (yes, "Radcliffe"--the oarswomen remain the only women's athletic squad that shuns the title "Harvard women...
...spend $125,000 to cover the same ground in six days that thousands of airline passengers travel every week in a few hours? At a press conference, Abruzzo talked in much the same terms that explorers have used for centuries: "Unless frontiers are challenged from time to time-whether they be flying a balloon, breaking an altitude record in a plane or writing a fine piece of literature -we don't move forward as a society." And Anderson described the lure of ballooning: "There are no books or music up there, but there is the whole world...
Last year the security guards now posted in just about all U.S. airports seized precisely 2,034 weapons-most of them carried by passengers about to board planes, others discarded in airport washrooms or behind the plastic palms in the waiting areas. Despite the sharp increase in air travel so far this year, the weapons take is off by about 25%. As of mid-August, the Federal Aviation Administration reports, the total of pistols, rifles, Mace canisters and assorted other items of hardware seized had reached "only...
...With air travel on the rise because of the profusion of cheaper fares, FAA Chief Langhorne Bond speculates that the industry may be seeing a "new breed" of gentler, friendlier mass air traveler. Nonetheless, the bad old kind is still a problem. Worldwide, there were 31 skyjacking attempts last year, vs. only 15 in 1976. This year the number of such incidents has remained high, with 14 attempts so far, including three in the U.S.-all of which were unsuccessful. New breed or no, the FAA has extended its requirement for the screening of air travelers from just scheduled flights...
...seasoned Pignedoli for a higher post: in 1967 Paul named him secretary to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, a position in which he helped to elevate native priests and bishops. Now, as president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, Pignedoli can still indulge a passion for travel. He has visited 105 countries, preaching warm sermons on prayer and photographing everything. During these trips, he has built up an astonishing worldwide correspondence with more than 6,000 people -many of them young-who write to him in Rome, addressing him "Dear Sergio." Though nurtured by Paul, he could...