Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific readers are great travelers. More than one-third have visited the U.S. at one time; 36% have traveled outside their own countries during the past year; 37% are planning to travel next year, and more than half of these will take their families along for the trip...
...anticipation of the day when the King and Queen of Greece would visit her father's farm, 40 miles from Chicago, as part of their good-will tour of the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 9). Then last week, pretty Queen Frederika caught a cold and had to skip the trip to the farm. "I told all my friends I was going to see a queen," sobbed Cheryl. "I've never seen a real, live queen!" But King Paul kept his date, and, as his 18-car motorcade stopped in front of the Smiths' frame house, Cheryl began...
Rotor-lifted aircraft, able to take off and land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment...
Says Commuter Bristol (who did much of the work on the hymnal on the train between his Princeton, N.Y. home and his Manhattan office) : "A man's Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round-trip ticket : not good if detached...
...Trip to Bountiful (by Horton Foote) concerns that second most ticklish menage a trois-the husband, the wife, and the husband's mother. The wife, in this case, is a giddy, shallow Texas shrew who browbeats her mother-in-law while exploiting her; the husband is too frightened to interfere; and the mother-in-law is a gentle, unhappy widow who likes Houston hardly better than her home life, and yearns for the small town of Bountiful where she lived long ago. In time she runs away to it, and is briefly happy among its ghosts before being forced...