Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germans share the bafflement that George Bernard Shaw is said to have expressed years ago about the English young: "They've got enough food, sexual freedom and indoor toilets. Why the deuce aren't they happy?" West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center...
Robert Carrier, 54, a Falstaffian fellow from Tarry town, N.Y.. who owns two of England's most sumptuous restaurants, Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk and London's Carrier's: "Every time you travel, come back with a dish, not a postcard. Learn to cook the secrets of the world and make them your own by adding curiosity and daring. Toss aside all hoity-toity rules and regulations. When entertaining, make only two dishes, which you must know. Try out anything...
...popularity of competing resorts. While the number of hotel rooms in Miami Beach fell by 3,000 during the past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this...
...building will use about 42% less energy than any comparable highrise. The Citicorp offices also have an economical, semiopen design, with walls about three-quarters of the way to the ceiling. One of Citicorp's most popular features: 50 battery-operated messenger wagons ($10,000 apiece) that travel on magnetic strips, stopping every 20 minutes at predestined points to pick up and deliver mail...
...turning Harvard's coaches loose to travel and meet prospective football players. The mails are too impersonal to give a young man a good picture of a football program in which he hopes to become deeply involved. And perhaps coach Restic can interest some intelligent athletes too caught up in the glamour of bigtime football into looking at Harvard as an alternative to the sometimes difficult path of a total committment to football...