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...imaginary city: the visitor arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers drydock. Boarding a Vickers-made bus (now running in cities from Cairo to Montevideo), the sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers electrified train. Going home again, he boards a Vickers airliner on an airfield carved...
...sightseer, the Prime Minister makes Baedeker look like a shy homebody. On this, his first visit to Asia, he has been especially taken by the continent's antiquities, as compared to the newness of things in Canada. Nothing seems to please him more, or wear out his aides faster, than a visit to the ruins and relics of these ancient civilizations. Not content with merely a leisurely glimpse, he wants to visit upstairs and down in all the buildings, with an archeologist at his side to answer a barrage of questions. At Agra, India, the other day, he spent...
...atomic sightseer happens to be looking to one side of the fireball, his blind spot will not cover the center of his visual field, and the blindness is less likely to be permanent. But even off-center views of the bomb will make him partially or temporarily blind...
...Sightseer's Digest. Though the Metropolitan has its share of pink marble, Taylor's museum high-hats nobody. Last week, as every week, a steady stream of schoolchildren, college students, housewives, tourists and casual visitors trooped up the steps and into the cloakroom to check their coats (no tips allowed...
Helped by a 3½-knot ebbing tide and an 8-mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...