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...circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
...Disneyland and Freedomland, could Texas be far behind? Yup. as a matter of fact. But now, on a 35-acre site halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, a ten-gallon version of the modern, thematic amusement park has just opened to the public. The theme, of course, is TEXAS, mister, hubris spelled out in smoke signals; and the name of the place was originally Texas Under Six Flags. But that just would not do. "Texas," someone pointed out, "is under nothin'." So, as thousands of children and adults turned up to see what the new $10 million park...
Built by Dallas Real Estate Developer Angus Wynne Jr., Six Flags Over Texas will stay open six months of the year, and figures on drawing 2,000,000 people a season (last year Disneyland drew 49.9 million. Freedomland 1.5 million). In the first five days, 37,000 visitors stampeded the grounds. They toured the river in the French section with a Texas-twanging pilot ("Good evening, mess amiss"), heard a red, white and blue band play the "Six Flags Over Texas" march 30 times a day, saw four hoodlums arrested after spilling soda pop out of the windows...
Manhattan now seems to appall more often than it pleases. Tourists, who gobble up goods at Macy's, profess to find the city cold and overwhelming. On the West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide...
...checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said Salisbury "and they left San Francisco starry-eyed. On the bus back to the hotel, one of them hummed happily a song of his own composition: 'San Francisco, San Francisco, what a wonderful city it is ... But it isn't Russian...