Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly all companies have taken steps to protect their officers. Fiat is reported to have prepared a highly confidential booklet for some 3,000 executives, "advising standard precautions such as varying daily travel, watching for suspicious strangers and carefully checking one's car. A group of 50 heads of small-and medium-size businesses in northern Italy have organized themselves into a modern version of the tontine, a primitive 17th century insurance company. They have put together a mutual-benefit ransom society so that if any member is held hostage, all participants will put up cash...
...however, that towns and cities will have to cut even more deeply than feared into services like parks and recreation, libraries, public transportation, street cleaning and garbage collection. Local officials may even have to pinch themselves where it hurts most: cutting administrative staffs and such perks as travel allowances and official cars...
...Peace Corps recruiter, to Mexico with the 1968 Olympics committee, to California for a bit part in Jesse Unruh's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, back to Indiana to manage a losing congressional race, off to the West as a roving Democratic fund raiser. Between jobs, he escaped for travel in South America or Europe, or for backpacking and skiing in the U.S. In 1974, while serving as executive director of the Democratic Party in New Mexico, he met Jimmy Carter. "I was impressed," Kraft says, "though I thought he didn't have a chance to get the nomination...
With production up over 600 pianos a year, Bösendorfer now plans to shed its aristocratic reserve and compete with Steinway for the U.S. concert business. It will make Bösendorfers available across the country for performances by travel ing artists. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has al ready gone over. But the odds are still with the Steinway: 95% of American concert pianists endorse it. Too bad Liszt is not around to judge the competition...
...that the Honan famine of 1943 was one of the worst in modern history. But it sounded as if it would make a story. So, at the end of February 1943, I flew to North China with my friend Harrison Forman of the London Times, and won permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank...