Word: prix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most museums in Italy and Greece close in midafternoon, just when Americans want to visit them. The pubs in Britain seem to be closed most of the time. All the ice cubes in Europe disappear on a hot day. Driving can occasionally resemble either a safari or a Grand Prix race, depending on whether you are in the countryside of Portugal or on the Autobahnen or autostrade of Germany or Italy. Despite such hazards, few Americans appear unhappy enough to talk of packing up and going home. They can, after all, always try another country...
...tourist is thus free to arrive with only 24 hours' prior notification. One way of escaping the formalities of hotel living is to stay at a farm or a country manor. Private agencies and government tourist commissions make such accommodations available at low prices. Many European countries offer prix fixe tourist meals that are obtainable at hundreds of restaurants for as little...
...shocked that anyone is shocked by appearance money. Gerulaitis is unusually eloquent on the subject: "If a tournament uses his name, his picture, shots of his matches for the past six months, what's wrong with McEnroe getting a fee?" For one thing, it is against the Grand Prix rules. Harold Solomon, president of the Association of Tennis Professionals, likens it to political "graft." If a player is assured of a sum larger than the first prize just for showing up, his incentive to win is naturally lessened. Gerulaitis answers brightly, "What's the difference in prizefighting...
February 16, 2 p.m.-A male undergraduate locked his 10 speed Raleigh Grand Prix outside the Science Center. When he returned the next day the bike, worth $300, was missing...
Mark Donohue, the 1972 Indy winner, quit for a time because of an expressed feeling of dread. He got over it and died in the Austrian Grand Prix at Graz. Dashing Peter Revson gave "Miss World" a playful squeeze and asked, "Is there a better life?" His ended in the South African Grand Prix at Johannesburg...