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The Los Angeles Times du lieu suivant : Los Angeles, California • 132

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4 S8C.J-Sun-.6ct. 4,1970 'i WHEN AUTUMN LEAVES ARE FAILING EVERYWHERE ELSE, GREECE IS STILL BASKING IN CLEAR, GOLDEN SUNLIGHT. And while the folks back home are feeling the chill in the air, you'll be sharing our warm Greek welcomes. Enjoying music, dancing, good food and laughter that know no season. Discovering the world's most beautiful ruins in the world's most beautiful climate.

Leisurely sipping ouzo at a sidewalk cafe. Feeling the beat of bouzouki that's just around every corner in Greece. And because your rates on our hundreds of brand new 1 and class hotels are cut by 20, you can spend more time with us for a lot less money. Tours, including transportation, first-class accommodations with full board and the best trained guides in Europe are just as as little as $15 a day. So take your summer vacation in Greece this fall.

I INSTANT TAXI can row hail a cab in New York from anywhere in the United States. Toll-Free Way to Make a Reservation Daylight savings time has a whole new meaning here. how the system operates. There are scores of machines with flashing lights and whirling colored tapes in the huge air- conditioned street level room. I had a reservationist type out a request for a double room with bath at a specific hotel in Las Vegas for a certain date and within seconds confirmation appeared on a television-like screen with the rate.

Then I asked for a si-. milar room within a specified price range in the Los Angeles area and a listing of more than a dozen hotels offering such accommodations flickered on the screen. Next I requested rental cars in several areas by make, type and equipment, such as automatic ing, and air conditioning. Again the answers flashed back in less than a minute. you have to do is to pick-up a telephone anywhere in the country and dial the number of one of the company's six regional centers.

The reservation-Ists at Ft. Lee, NJ, Springfield, 111, Chicago, Los Angeles, Jackson, Miss. or. Toronto will type your request onto the computer terminal television screen while you hold the line. In seconds, the message travels along part of the 10,000 -mile network of WATS lines to One Park Ave.

where the giant RCA Spectra 70 computers scan their memory banks and report back on the availability of rooms and car rentals. Ntme. Addren. Creek NattoMlToarMOrtMiutleit Cracker alliens Nut, t27W.h St. let Anftlet, Csllfomls MOW Centlemen? I went te ipffHl lemnet vsalion to Greece this Ml.

'leiee teM est mere ieforeutlen. Otf. UT-10 Here is how the system works, Jordan said: "When the traveler calls Reservations World irom anywhere in the country, at any time of the day, our reservationist makes whatever hotel arrangements he wishes and asks if he will need a taxi on arrival at, let's say, LaGuar-dia airport. "If he does, he is given a telephone number to call immediately after his plane lands and in the time it. takes to claim his luggage, the taxi should be waiting to pick him up." In a Hurry The personal taxi service also is available for travelers leaving New York.

traveler in a hurry can make hotel or auto rental reservations while on the way to the airport, railway station or. bus depot, Jordan said. "All he has to do is to have the cabbie radio his dispatcher, who makes a telephone call to Reservations World. The company's computers have stored in their memory banks all the facts and figures on more than 1 million rooms in hotels, motels and resorts and nearly 5,000 auto rental outlets in the United States and Canada. I visited the headquarters in New York to see BY MURRAY J.

BROWN 4 Travel Editor KEW YORK Do you know you can hail a cab in New York from anywhere the United States? Or confirm hotel reservations and auto rentals in hundreds of cities across the country while riding in a New York taxi? to he telephone, two-way radio and computer, it can be done. And the service is available af ound the clock seven days week and doesn't cost you one cent. Only One Call I One toll-free call to Reservations World is all that is necessary, according to Jerry Jordan, president of the company. "In this pilot project, we have arranged with a taxi company for any one of its 200 vehicles in New York City to be available to pck up a traveler within five minutes of his arrival at an airport, steamship dock or rail terminal," he said. Jordan said the taxi service eventually will be expanded to cover other major- destination cities throughout the United States.

He said there are other hotel and car rental reservations companies but Reservations World is the first to offer to provide taxi services for the business or pleasure traveler. transmission, power steer sP A GALAXY OF LUXURY AIRSEA CRUISES MH- S5 Enjoy a travel bargain on the S.S. Statenderm JjJS -ic Circle Pacific Cruise Tour leavs A. November 1 via PAA JM to Tokvo (or. right) s'av in Hong Kong (two nights) at HILTON SZ HOTEL.

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Enjoy outside twin-bedded cabins 55 with private facilities Orient South Pacific Adventure leave LA. October 25, mm via BOAC VC-10 let to Tokyo, complete sightseeing program in Japan 55 for 5 days, then to Hong Kong lor two lull days sightseeing, sail on 55 STATENDAM November 5, visiting all areas in South Pasifis as shown above. 49 gala days. All expense irom 513 Other Combination! AirSea programs far Fall Spring avail. I 5 to the South Pacific, South America, Africa, Orient Mediterranean.

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