Word: tripping
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MORE erudite undergraduates seek something cultured and scenic. They flock towards Mexico or the Carribean Islands, where the ocean is blue and the drinking age ignored. The most difficult part of this sort of trip, though, is gathering information and making arrangements. One of my room-mates spent the better part of an afternoon shrieking, "Habla Ingles?" into a telephone without getting an intelligible response--but it might have been the connection...
...roast on a beach with a Margarita in your hand. Why proceed even further North than Cambridge (Yes, it is possible) to shiver in an unheated cabin? But if you still feel the need to spit in the face of common sense, then you are welcome to this trip for $225 and two vital organs. Don't forget your Blue Cross card, though...
That the American national food service organization did not know much about Fedics when it arranged the U.S.-tour does not absolve anyone. The executive director of the association said that the South African company conducted all of its communication by telephone, and that it began discussing the trip only 30 days before it took place. The director said both these facts are unusual. But still no inquiry was made into the nature of the South African company...
...author's formula has become too predictable, however, and Hot Money is especially welcome because it offers a variation. No steamer trunks this trip, though as usual there are a few "ers" in the mixture, for flavor. Only the locked room of the mind (and the odd explosion) vex the hero, an amateur steeplechase rider named Ian Pembroke, as he puzzles out who is trying to murder his rich and autocratic father...
After this "Festival of Making Music Together," American artists will go to the Soviet Union next year, Stearns said. The money raised from the March 27th performance of the ballet "Hommage A Plisetskaya," featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, will be used to fund the trip which is expected to begin in the fall of 1989, Sterns said...