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...Every American bride is taken here," reported Oscar Wilde after visiting Niagara Falls in 1882. "This waterfall," he added, "must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest disappointments in American married life...
Wilde was more wry than right.* Niagara may rank 83rd on the list of the world's 100 highest cataracts, but only two (Guaira Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border, and Khone Falls in Laos) cascade vaster quantities of water. Since the area's first hotel opened on the Canadian side of the Niagara River 148 years ago, the falls have proved one of the most visited, derided and durable attractions in North America. A record 16 million tourists are expected to visit Niagara Falls in 1965. And despite all the quips by wags from Mencken to Mort...
...COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this ménage is a Niagara of laughter...
...great wave, the applause grew. After a long minute. Emanuel Celler of New York, dean of the House and a longtime civil libertarian, jumped to his feet, bringing others in the chamber to their feet with him, Democrats first, then Republicans. For 30 seconds they stood, pouring out a Niagara of applause...
...officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn. In July a sixth will open near Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, for which a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is being constructed as part of a series of "great scenes from world history...