Word: travellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in his VIP-styled Boeing 707 this week on his historic mission to eleven nations in Western Europe, South Asia and North Africa. First stop, for refueling: Goose Bay, Labrador. Second stop: Rome. Before he completes the circuit and touches home again, he will travel for 19 days through 19,600 miles by plane, 270 by helicopter, 1,500 by ship, 1,000 by train and car on the longest overseas trip ever made by a U.S. President in office...
...Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow from a brief Black Sea vacation, and made it back from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...husband, Prince Philip. Tribal chiefs sat under ceremonial umbrellas at the airport. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was there, beaming, and 150,000 people lined the streets to shout "Akwaaba" (welcome). There were many kind references to Queen Elizabeth, whose pregnancy prevented her being there. But Prince Philip could hardly travel anywhere in the Commonwealth and find less evidence of her influence. His official cavalcade rolled slowly down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and turned into Kwame Nkrumah Circle. A huge statue of Nkrumah confronted him at Parliament House. Before Prince Philip were massed miles of red-yellow-and-green Ghana flags...
Cornish Hen Perigourdine. All this,added to the return of veterans from posts abroad and the great increase in travel, has upgraded and greatly widened U.S. food tastes, whetted appetites for exotic new dishes. Many Americans who only ten years ago thought that an artichoke was part of an automobile now serve it regularly at table; Artichoke Industries of Castroville, Calif, froze 2.9 million artichoke hearts this year. Sales of such fancy foods in the U.S. have more than doubled since 1954, last year passed the $100 million mark. Charlie Mortimer put General Foods into the field...
...proposed company will be completely independent of the HDC, with the Army underwriting expenses of travel, food, and lodging. In addition to playing at various Armed Forces installations, however, the troupe will also perform in some "downtown" theatres of large cities in Japan, Hawaii, and the Phillipines...