Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pack a universal drain stopper for Samarkand and a pepper mill on any trip. If you fancy a great British breakfast in London, bypass Claridge's and make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from...
...state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news...
...Then the trip really began going sour. Without explanation, all passengers were told to leave the plane during a Denver stopover. Another hour passed. After reboarding, they waited 40 minutes for takeoff. By the time they reached New York at 1 a.m., four hours overdue, La Guardia's runways were closed for the night, and the jumbo jet was diverted to Kennedy. At La Guardia, Charley's girlfriend Melanie waited for three hours before learning what had happened. Poor Charley had almost become the jet-age version of the 1959 Kingston Trio hit about the "man who never returned." Declared...
...clampdown came just three weeks after Junejo returned from a trip to the U.S., where he proclaimed Pakistan's return to democracy and emphasized that Bhutto's appeal was fading fast. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the U.S. hoped for the quick restoration of "peaceful conditions...
...pilot, Albert Maltret, 50, a salesman for an oil company, was publicizing the plight of Frenchmen who, he said, have been unjustly arrested in Morocco. Maltret said he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for a day last year during a business trip to Casablanca...