Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, there are signs that Morrow's message is getting through. In Resolute, 60 miles from the Magnetic Pole, a local teen-age interpreter greeted him proudly wearing a green sweatshirt emblazoned with "Here comes the judge." It was meant as a serious tribute. On the same stop there was perhaps an even more significant indicator. An Eskimo was fined $5 for beating up a friend. He was asked after the trial if the decision had been fair. "I don't have $5," he said morosely. But had the judge done right? After a thoughtful pause...
...grand meal after another. My people don't want to stay in hotels that have stock market tickers in the lobbies. They're people who want to test Europe?live on the Left Bank of Paris instead of the Right, eat in the same restaurants the local people eat in." Frommer's "people" are mainly travelers in the 30-and-under age bracket?currently nearly half of all the U.S. tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within ten years he has parlayed Europe on $5 a Day into a company that publishes 14 separate guidebooks...
...restaurants and cabarets, Fielding is always?if he can manage it?incognito. He reserves a table in advance, either under an alias (Parker, Stone and Phillips are his favorites) or in the name of a local friend whom he is taking to lunch or dinner. Temp has four basic test dishes: eggs Benedict ("You can tell a lot from the consistency of the hollandaise"), vol-au-vent ("So often it's gucky"), bouillabaisse ("Every maritime country has its own version") and coquilles St. Jacques. He is an expert at moving food around on his plate to make it look...
Despite his efforts to salvage erring establishments, Fielding frequently errs himself. For annual corrections in cities that the five-member team has been unable to visit, Fielding is forced to rely on a network of friends?florists, restaurateurs, airline employees, local city-guide editors, shopkeepers. They commit numerous howlers?and so has Fielding. In his 1969 book, he says that there are "only 125 miles of turnpike" in France, when in fact there are more than 600. He calls St. Tropez on the Riviera "a sweet little port," and maybe it is?in the winter. During the warm summer months...
...thing to Coney Island east of Coney Island. The Greek section of the current Guide has obviously not been revised for years: hotels described as "new" are actually in their teens, and Athens' Costi restaurant, which Fielding calls "our local favorite" and praises for its "excellent cookery and ancient waiters," qualifies as somewhat ancient itself. It closed down last summer. In Munich, Fielding marvels at a 330-ft.-high TV tower that is really 330 meters high, and manages to overlook three spanking-new luxury hotels...