Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward week's end Ike boarded Columbine III for a trip to Seattle for an address this week to a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan organization, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia. On the way, he stopped off in Ohio for a spell of duckhunting as the guest of his good friend and former Treasury Secretary, Cleveland Millionaire George Magoffin Humphrey. Arriving at Toledo, which had gone overwhelmingly Democratic three days earlier, Ike found an airport crowd of 2,500 waiting in 42° chill to show him that...
...cadets: "We'll beat Stanford anyway, sir, but the team needs us at Iowa." The answer was still no. The cadet wing gathered in the courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan explained patiently that the trip would involve a 20-hour bus ride each way, that it would cost every cadet $25. Each objection was met with a roar of dissent. General Sullivan gave in. The entire cadet wing boarded 22 buses, rode all night to Iowa City, changed into their blues en route and arrived...
Lattimore will arrive here Thursday, Dec. 11 and remain until Sunday, when he is scheduled to speak at the Community Church in Boston. He said he has not made final plans for his trip here, but would decide where he would stay "in a couple of days...
...trip to Australia and New Zealand does not constitute a sabbatical leave," Griswold emphasized. "First of all, sabbaticals are not available to administrative officers. Secondly, 'sabbatical' means once every seven years, and I haven't been on leave from the Harvard Law School for 25 consecutive academic years...
...carriers are not members-as are Pan Am and Panagra-of the International Air Transport Association, which taboos price warfare. The local airlines set fares as they please, often undercut Pan Am or Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket for $276.50; Pan Am and Panagra are required to charge...