Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign travel is more popular than ever, thanks mainly to the new low charter fares that offer round-trip flights to London for as little as $350. Passport applications are up 15%. Vacations this year cost 5% to 10% more than last year, but with the economy stronger, inflation at a compound annual rate of 7.4% and unemployment easing to 6.9%, Americans seem more comfortable about indulging themselves...
Closer, cheaper and safer than the sleazy Mexican border town are three of the best theme parks in the West. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland at Anaheim in 1955, the idea was that his fantasyland would be "a travel destination" at which visitors would spend whole weekends or vacations. Many families still do, but Disneyland, like Florida's Disney World, has become a focal point from which holidaymakers can radiate out to other parks, beaches, authentic historical scenes and myriad recreations ranging from surfing and sailing to deep-sea fishing and ballooning. Thus a family with a week...
...This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman," proclaimed Freddie Laker, the scrappy founder of Britain's Laker Airways, when in 1971 he first proposed Skytrain "shuttle" flights between New York and London at rock-bottom prices. Six years of governmental turbulence have held up the takeoff, but last week President Carter approved Laker's plan. Since the British government assented in February, Laker's three red, white and black DC-10s are now cleared to begin flying passengers Sept. 26 at the lowest fares ever quoted: $236 round trip...
...school edict of the early fifties when these students had been at the start of their educations: 'It is not formal manners that we are interested in, but internal feelings.' How wrong could they be? By what road straighter and faster than that of external forms does internal feeling travel to another person...
...hottest car in the U.S. today," says New York City Auto Dealer Frank Silvestry of the Honda Accord. Many experts would agree. Pertly styled, carefully engineered, with front-wheel drive and able to travel up to 48 miles on a gallon of gas, the Japanese-built Accord practically sells itself, and buyers around the country are willing to wait three to eight months for delivery. The Accord, however, is only the most spectacular example of the massive assault on the U.S. being made by imported cars, which now account for 21% of all new autos sold in the American market...