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...closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget abroad...
...owner of a lucrative travel agency catering to Harvard students, Vladimir Kazan, 42, qualified for VIP treatment when he visited Moscow last October at the cordial invitation of Intourist, the Soviet state travel bureau. In fact, the Russians picked up the bill for his entire stay. But Kazan, a former Czech who had emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 and become a citizen, discovered that Communist hospitality can still be highly uneven. Returning to the U.S. via Paris, Kazan's Soviet Aeroflot jetliner made an unscheduled stop in Prague for what Czech authorities said was a "radar breakdown." When...
...young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of North Little Rock, Ark., and Craddock M. Gilmour, 24, of Salt Lake City, who had made the mistake of talking about their black-market dealings in the presence of their Intourist guide. In addition, Wortham was accused of stealing a "national treasure" from his Leningrad hotel room - a 22-in. statue depicting a Russian bear that was shot by Czar Alexander...
...Charles Bear, managing director of TIME-LIFE International, Stevens DeClerque, TLI advertising director, and Ralph Davidson, European advertising director for TLI. Their audience consisted of the president and top officials of Vneshtorgreklama, the Soviets' sole export advertising agency, and executives of more than 30 foreign-trade trusts including Intourist, the government travel agency; Aeroflot, the national airline; Prodintorg, food; and Soyuzpushnina, furs and carpets. How this unique gathering came about was explained by Bear: "For some time we have followed Russia's apparent desire to increase trade in nonstrategic goods with other countries. We thought the time...
...Liberator," rose an excited cry. Cheers and laughter followed the discovery. Ancient copies of the Boston Evening Transcript, New England Farmer, and the Fashion Herald were trampled underfoot in the stampede to find a precious Liberator. When the search was exhausted, people collected the less exotic relics, such as Intourist travel folders...