Word: travellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were such trials still going on at this late date? In Koch's case, his own illness and the search for evidence had postponed the trial for eight years. Merten had returned to Greece in April 1957 as the prosperous representative of German travel agencies, and to his astonishment had been arrested...
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...explanation for this attitude can be found primarily in the commonness of European travel, which is often a narrowing experience at college age. It is narrowing because it breaks down the feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars...
...Boeing 707s in daily service to Paris and six weekly to London, Pan American last week reported an average 90% of seats filled (43,400 transatlantic passengers to date) v. the usual 50% to 55% load factors at this time of year. Moreover, because the jets have stimulated all travel. Pan Am's total transatlantic business has jumped 46% in the last two months, with even bigger increases on the way. Advance bookings for the summer travel season are up 236% in economy class, up 340% in deluxe class...
...countries have been thoroughly pawed over by tourists and travel writers. Searching for a virgin field, Author-Traveler John Sack turned to 13 of the smallest and least important nations, seminations and oddball principalities he could find, from seagirt Lundy (pop. 21), ten miles off the coast of an indifferent England, to the Middle Eastern principality of Swat (pop. 518,600), whose wily Wali encourages the tourist trade, according to Sack, by personally inspecting the toilet drains in his nation's only hotel...