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...Ugly American image is largely forgotten. For one thing, though they spend more money and time in Europe than any other non-Continental nationality, Americans today are only a part of the tourist mass. As Atlanta Travel Agent Phil Osborne puts it, "The whole planet earth is traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants...
Europe on $20 a Day by Arthur Frommer; Frommer/Pasmantier; $9.95. It started out as $5 a day, but times and the inflation rate have changed. Frommer, however, has not. Still the popular Baedeker of Bermuda-shorts wearers everywhere, Europe on $20 approaches the Continent as a kind of Disneyland for...
Parkman's strained, beleaguered life produced a stunning epic, stretching from French explorations during the latter years of the 15th century to the signing in 1763 of the Peace of Paris, in which France effectively relinquished all claims to the North American continent. Through it all, the historian occupies...
Ah, Europe: cradle of culture and liberty, land of a hundred dialects, a thousand wines, 200 million opinions. Luigi Barzini, veteran journalist and author of a 1964 bestseller about his own tribe, The Italians, looks upon the Continent's rich diversity of tradition and thought-and despairs.
Despite such failures, Mengistu remains committed to Communist models of development. Hopes that Mengistu's election as chairman of the 50-member Organization of African Unity during its meeting in Addis Ababa last month might moderate his stance have already been dashed. Less than a week after his designation...