Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups have refused to allow the Soviet team into the country because Frank Walsh, an experienced San Francisco sports promoter, arranged the tour this summer by himself, without the A.A.U.'s approval. Dan Ferris, the Secretary of the A.A.U., said Walsh went through "the wrong channels" in scheduling the trip. But couldn't the A.A.U. find it possible to steer him into the "right channel...
...recently announced desire of the Russians for increased trade with the West prompted Berman's trip. His mission was to find out what goods the Soviet wanted to export and import, and to study the commercial and legal questions involved. He discussed these subjects with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and with the heads of more than ten Soviet import-export combines...
...Frye certainly bought a long string of tickets during his trip. Arriving in Helsinki by plane on August 24, just after the close of Summer School in Cambridge, he proceeded from there to Leningrad, where he gave a talk on Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...
...American gourmet who does manage a Moscow trip, Berman recommends the Praga Restaurant. A Russian friend took him to dinner there once, and it was quite a meal...
...expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered the unexplored land, included fierce meetings with "white bears" (grizzlies), narrow escapes in strange and unfamiliar surroundings, and new sights and marvels that filled them with wonder (see following color pages...