Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, through the slaying of King and Ray's arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? Where did he pick up the savvy to adopt four clever aliases in Canada during that flight and then acquire a passport to travel to London and Lisbon, eluding for so long one of the most massive man hunts in modern times...
...sign of the co-operation between coaches and admissions office is the current loosening of the once-rigid attitude against coaches' travel. While Harvard still enforces the ban, the protests of a number of coaches may have had some impact. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, who has the final decision on the issue of coaches' travel, says he does not think such a form of recruitment is necessarily wrong. "I'm not so hung up on the philosophical issue of whether coaches should travel," Jewett says, adding, "I simply would not argue that this...
...worry about dwindling oil supplies, a growing shortage of firewood is causing a "poor man's energy crisis" in the developing nations, where firewood is often the only available fuel. In India and in Africa south of the Sahara, firewood is in such short supply that villagers may travel up to 50 kilometers (more than 30 miles) to gather it and bring it home; in Niger, wood is so expensive that a laborer must spend nearly a quarter of his income on fuel. Elsewhere, the search for firewood is helping to create new deserts. Almost all the trees within...
...Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, is generally acknowledged to be the greatest private hoard of Japanese art in the world. In the area of Nō costumes, it is unsurpassable. The Japan Society show, which opened at Washington's National Gallery of Art in April and will travel to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth in the summer, is therefore a unique event: most of these fragile and sumptuous robes have never been lent abroad before, and few are even seen inside Japan...
Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The paratroopers' radios were faulty, so communication with them was impossible; fog in England hampered air-support operations; the road over which the ground forces were supposed to travel was too narrow, slowing their progress to a painful crawl. Finally, there were more German troops in the area than the Allied high command expected, partly because they had ignored their own intelligence reports...