nytimes.com — 2+ hour, 43+ min ago
Jimmy Elidrissi, Waldorf Bellhop for Five Decades, Dies at 74
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/nyregion/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html
Jimmy Elidrissi, Waldorf Bellhop for Five Decades, Dies at 74 A Moroccan immigrant's goal was to ... Woman" (1992), with Al Pacino; and "Analyze This" (1999), with Robert De Niro. ... Jallali Elidrissi was born on Aug. 25, 1946, in Temara, just south of Rabat on the Atlantic coast, to ... Waldorf Astor and of John Jacob Astor that had led to the hotel's creation -- vanished. ... in Manhattan, according to his union, the Hotel Trades Council. ... ...
nytimes.com — 9+ hour, 33+ min ago
Travelers" Frustration Mounts at "Confusing" British Covid Restrictions
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/travel/britain-traffic-light-system-covid-restrictions.html
, Germany and Canada to be moved to the "green list," and Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to be upgraded ... National Health Service, in which case "green list" rules apply. ... Charles, the chief executive officer of The PC Agency, a London-based travel consultancy firm that analyzes ... But only Bulgaria and Hong Kong were upgraded to green. ... Alderslade, the chief executive of Airlines UK, the trade body for airlines registered in Britain. ... ...
nytimes.com — 9+ hour, 33+ min ago
Frustration Mounts at British "Confusing" Traffic-Light System
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/travel/britain-traffic-light-holiday.html
, Germany and Canada to be moved to the "green list," and Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to be upgraded ... National Health Service, in which case "green list" rules apply. ... Charles, the chief executive officer of The PC Agency, a London-based travel consultancy firm that analyzes ... But only Bulgaria and Hong Kong were upgraded to green. ... Alderslade, the chief executive of Airlines UK, the trade body for airlines registered in Britain. ... ...
nytimes.com — 14+ hour, 57+ min ago
The Travel Industry's Reckoning With Race and Inclusion
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/travel/black-travelers-diversity-inclusion.html
those in the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland, are keenly interested in how destinations and ... Crow laws enforcing racial segregation in America. ... Beyond the Bell Tours, a Philadelphia-based operator of social-justice-oriented tours that highlight ... justice, the past year has been one of reckoning for the travel industry on issues of race and inclusivity ... and maybe even heard the words `systemic racism' for the first time," said Rebecca Fisher, founder of ... ...
nytimes.com — 1+ day ago
Is Jeff Bezos an Astronaut Now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/science/jeff-bezos-astronaut-definition.html
Bezos and the other three passengers -- his brother Mark; Mary Wallace Funk, an 82-year-old aviation ... astronaut wings on Michael Melvill and Brian Binnie, the pilots who flew the two winning SpaceShipOne ... The Federal Aviation Administration may disagree. Or it may not even matter. ... Two other Virgin Galactic pilots received wings on the next SpaceShipTwo flight, as did Beth Moses, the ... He presented one of the suborbital pins to Beth Moses of Virgin Galactic after her first flight. ... ...
nytimes.com — 1+ day ago
Trading the Welsh Countryside for a Ranch in Wyoming
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/travel/wales-wyoming-cowboy-culture.html
A view of the Grand Teton Mountains from inside the Cunningham Cabin in Grand Teton National Park. ... Two generations ago, Duncan Finley traveled to the United States from Scotland, settling in the East ... John Finley -- followed by his dog, Strider -- walks toward his log cabin on the Finley Ranch. ... The town of Dubois, in Wyoming's Fremont County. ... There, down the gravel East Fork Road, lies the Lazy L&B Ranch: a scattering of log cabins and horse ... ...