Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still cheap are Spain, Austria and Ireland. Biggest travel bargain in 1960, after the initial expense of getting there: Greece, where accommodations are improving, though rarely luxurious, and prices are low: $10 per day for deluxe double room, $2.50 to $3.50 for the best dinner available...
...rented through the American Automobile Association and from Hertz and Avis in advance, or from firms on the Continent, which have rates about $1 per day cheaper- $2.50 per day for a Volkswagen, plus 5? per kilometer (.6 of a mile) and gas. Roads are good except in Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia, and behind the Iron Curtain. European gas prices are still exorbitant by U.S. standards, average 55? per U.S. gal., run as high as 84? per gal. in France and Italy. But special cut-rate government coupons provide a 21% discount in France, 30% in Italy...
...hotels are rising in the Scandinavian countries. Copenhagen's Royal Hotel (double rooms start at $9) will be ready in July. In Spain, hotel rates are government-controlled, and the best, such as Madrid's Ritz and Palace, start at $12 per night for two. (Old Spanish Traveler Ernest Hemingway always stays at the Casa de Suecia.) Accommodations in Greece are better this year. The King's Palace Hotel in Athens, which opened last November, is first class. The Aegean isles of Paros and Rhodes will have more facilities ($5 to $6 per double room...
From Buenos Aires, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti last week supplied the answer: "The Israelis found Adolf Eich mann in Argentina. He arrived in this country in 1952 from Spain. He was traveling with an Italian Red Cross document obtained through the Vatican's D.P.-relief department, which qualified him as a displaced person. The document was in the name of Krumey. one of Eichmann's assistant exterminators who was rearrested in West Germany following Ben-Gurion's announcement...
...considered dead. But he had not committed suicide, and in the chaos of the war squirmed through the nets spread for his capture. Taken prisoner by U.S. forces in Austria in 1945, Eichmann soon escaped, made his way to north Germany, where he worked as a forester, then to Spain before moving on to Peron's Argentina. After his capture, Eichmann is said to have remarked: "It's a relief. I've been expecting this for a long time...