Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long and 12 inches high. People are crammed into these shelves after they pay their $10,000 to get out of Vietnam--and they don't move until the boat docks at Hong Kong or Malaysia or elsewhere. They relieve themselves in their cubbyholes for the entire 600-mile trip. The man from Immigration calls them "professional refugees," conditioned by an endless war and sent packing in an atmosphere far worse. Their stares are vacant when they arrive at the docks. "What do they think when they enter the harbor?," he wonders out loud. Most of them stay...
...that Lundberg seems to lack is some international swimming experience which he gained at the Games while learning that "international competition is not all glamor and glory; you're still a regular guy when you go on a trip...
...Short trips are fuel wasters. Drives of five miles or less account for about 15% of the mileage on U.S. cars, but consume over 30% of the gasoline. Reason: the trip is over before the engine begins to operate at peak efficiency...
...this week he will deliver a public lecture on spiritual development at D.A.R. Constitution Hall, as well as meet with Congressmen and the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has been trying to visit the U.S. for six years, but the State Department has always discouraged the trip, telling him it would be "inconvenient," specifically because of protracted and delicate negotiations with Peking...
Sally Roberts, now graduated, Martha Roberts and Meyer got a chance to hone their strokes this summer when a combined Harvard and Yale women's team traveled to England in June. The trip's highlight came when the trio triumphed in the team's victory over a combined Oxford and Cambridge team on June...