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Caricatured on the Continent as camera-toting innocents abroad, the first postwar wave of American tourists descended happily on gay Paree. They weren't quite as dumb as Europeans liked to think, but France was still an unexplored territory. And with prices low compared to the U.S., the early...
In Africa II (see opposite page), Rivers exquisitely sketches the features of a native, then juxtaposes it with the flimsy profiles of camels off the cigarette pack and a slunky crocodile. The result is a rough estimate of a dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full...
This year, however, Europeans already have more dollars than they want. And, regardless of our balance of payments, they'll be cashing in for gold. "You can keep your businessmen from investing, your banks from loaning and your tourists from spending," says a representative of Deutsche Bundesbank, "but you can...
In answer to the allegations that its overseas fares this summer were excessive, the HSA could provide only three rather meaningless generalities. The report claims that the jets now used exclusively cost more than the propeller planes formerly used, but the charge was that the HSA jets are priced higher...
VARIATIONS of this ugly axiom are heard the length of Asia and are as universal as the antagonisms they express. The continent's greatest single cause of turmoil is not the struggle for food or political power but simple-and not so simple-hatred among peoples, classes, races. The...