Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised to pursue other investigations already under way, including the question of whether Lance had improperly used his Atlanta bank's aircraft to take himself and Carter on purely political trips. That would amount to an illegal corporate political contribution if the bank were not reimbursed for such travel. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee intends to reopen in two weeks its less than aggressive hearings into Lance's financial affairs. Democratic Chairman Abraham Ribicoff went into the earlier inquiry like a lion and came out like a lamb, lauding Lance and lambasting the press. He has already announced...
...landing at convenient Heathrow Airport, Laker wants to touch down at Gatwick, which is served by rail (though it is still about 40 minutes from London) and more accessible than the far-off Stansted field, where he first proposed to land. He also wants to sell tickets through travel agents instead of only at airports, and, most important, to operate more than the one flight a day that he is now authorized...
Given an arbitrary height of 300 ft. at which to fly, the distance traveled in 90 sec. would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed...
...period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors or their estates 10% of its rental fee and calls its service, not immodestly, "the thinking...
Meanwhile the lone killer was forcing a huge city's young women to shun their usual dating places, to roll up their long hair, to travel only in groups. All this provided another painful reminder of a mass society's vulnerability to the whims and torments of the oddballs in its midst...