Word: travels
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...contingent of "several hundred," some of whom may take advantage of a special $299 round-trip plane fare arranged by march organizers. The Rev. Timothy McDonald III, a march supporter and minister at Atlanta's First Iconium Baptist Church, estimates that 50 churches in his area will participate. Travel agents report that flights from Chicago to D.C. on Oct. 15 and 16 are jammed tight. District of Columbia police have agonized publicly over the possibility of dealing with 10,000 buses full of marchers...
...NOVEL WAS A BLOCKBUSTER: A SMALL group of adventurers, their leader a renowned scientist, travel to a remote, isolated South American location. Shortly after their arrival, they encounter, to their amazement, living dinosaurs. The explorers are separated, and after several harrowing incidents just barely manage to escape, leaving the prehistoric beasts behind. Jurassic Park? No. It is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 science-fiction classic The Lost World--coincidentally the title of Crichton's Jurassic Park sequel. While Crichton is a master of weaving the latest technology into his tales, he has no problem reaching into the past...
YOUR ARTICLE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF the gay travel market to Miami Beach's economy was interesting [TOURISM, Sept. 25] but a bit careless. The statement that gays "typically have far more disposable income than do straights" and the quote from the pollster who says that gays "clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group" can only serve to fan the flame of a newer, supposedly more positive stereotype of gay and lesbian people. But still a stereotype. JEFFREY MOSTADE Cleveland, Ohio Via E-mail...
...Hmong lover" and took their business elsewhere. Under threat of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, the new board conceived a plan for racial balance in the schools by redefining the boundaries of some neighborhoods. And while the busing continues, it is now mostly Hmong children who travel to other neighborhoods each...
Religion writer Richard Ostling reports that President Clinton's decision to travel to Newark to meet the Pope is a reminder that the Catholic vote will be vital to Clinton's reelection chances: "The Democrats have lost one big bloc in F.D.R.'s old New Deal coalition, white Southerners (mostly Protestant but also those who are Catholic), and cannot afford to lose the other big bloc of ethnic Catholics. Hispanics and blacks are strongly Democratic, whether Catholic or not, and so are Jews, but it's impossible to win without solid support from the 60 million American Catholics. F.D.R. floated...