Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatize U.S. concern about the case, and Vance formally announced that Presidential Science Adviser Frank Press would not, as previously planned, attend the sixth annual meeting of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Moscow. A three-member environmental delegation also canceled an imminent trip to Russia. Vance said he "deplored" the coming Soviet trials as a violation of "fundamental principles of justice...
Aboard the ship were 960 passengers headed for a "Cruise to Nowhere," an increasingly popular vacation trip in which passengers are promised a nonstop party aboard a floating hotel. Although the America's owners, Venture Cruise Lines Inc., offered some cabins for $149, nearly $100 cheaper than its competitors, the company advertised facilities "as complete and luxurious as any cruise costing two and three times the price." Among the amenities were bars, a discotheque and a casino with blackjack tables, roulette wheels and slot machines...
...precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
...however, is not as it may appear on the surface. Poll or no, Nixon is not headed anywhere near the White House; the closest he could ever make it--and even this would depend on a particularly lunatic display by the admittedly eccentric California electorate--would be a return trip to the Senate. But despite the rumors--that he is preparing for a Senate run, or that he is awaiting the return of a Republican administration to provide him with an ambassadorship to somewhere in the Far East, perhaps China--the greatest danger is not that Nixon will return...
Moving to the subject of Vice President Mondale's trip this week to Israel and Egypt, the President considered whether an American peace plan might be necessary in negotiation...