Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once. She talks slowly, with the measured rhythm and varied tone of the practiced public speaker but she never talks at you. Indeed, you might be deceived, on first meeting her, into imagining that this charming old lady was taking it easy after adventures such as her 1962 trip to the World Disarmament Congress in Moscow. But the deception is short-lived. She says her time is more her own now but she still gives lectures about the history of the women's movement, her journeys to China, Cuba, and Russia, and her ongoing work for civil rights and world...
Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev made his first trip abroad last week since he jostled Nikolai Podgorny out of the Soviet presidency (TIME, June 6) and added that largely honorary title to his other calling-card credits. On a three-day visit to France, Brezhnev frequently behaved less like a President than like an emperor...
Foreign travel is more popular than ever, thanks mainly to the new low charter fares that offer round-trip flights to London for as little as $350. Passport applications are up 15%. Vacations this year cost 5% to 10% more than last year, but with the economy stronger, inflation at a compound annual rate of 7.4% and unemployment easing to 6.9%, Americans seem more comfortable about indulging themselves...
...unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your mind with fear and fun-but only in a wooden coaster are you certain that you have flown. B.J. Phillips
Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which plans to offer $236 round-trip tickets between New York City and London (TIME, June 27), will become the second scheduled British carrier on that run. Either Laker or British Caledonian, another privately owned carrier, will gain a route between Los Angeles and London. In addition, British airliners will be allowed to fly into Houston and Seattle and, after three years, into Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth...