Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since his first Guide was published, "the normal Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Middletown, U.S.A." to whom it is frankly addressed, have come to regard Temple Fielding as a sort of traveler's Dr. Spock?a role he relishes. "If Temp has a cause, and I think he has one," says his chief assistant, Joe Raff, "it is to ease the passage of the traveler, to assuage his doubts...
...Netherlands "take the honors in the firecracker department," Fielding whispers, and in London, ladies of the afternoon can be located by consulting the "business cards" on street bulletin boards. He defends his genteel pandering on the principle that "people's lives are their private lives. A husband and wife come to Europe, they're together, together, together. They're in a rut. The wife decides to go someplace the husband doesn't want to go. So he'll want to know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life...
...first edition of Fielding's Guide came off the presses in 1948. It was an instant success. The Danish government ran a survey and was amazed to discover that between one-third and one-half of all Americans who visited between 1948 and 1950 had come at Fielding's recommendation. Nancy and Temple moved from New York to Denmark in 1951, and four months later settled in Formentor, where they built up their remarkable establishment...
...tops for that great American game of celebrity watching. A typical luncheon might consist of bucatini alia a matriciana (tubes of pasta in a sauce of tomatoes and bacon), trout au gratin, and a dessert of torta St. Honore. With house wine, service and cover, the bill will come...
Profit has not come so easily to the chains. They have been borrowing at high cost to expand and diversify into such related businesses as drugstores and retirement communities. Some of the largest chains net only 5% or 6% yearly on investment v. an average of 10% for all of U.S. industry last year. The stocks in several big chains have dropped sharply; Hillhaven and National Health Enterprises are down more than 60% from their 1968 highs...