Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trips to Washington to call on President Lyndon Johnson, John D. Rockefeller 3rd flew tourist class and did not ask to be met by a limousine. But it was raining at the airport and no cabs were in sight. So Rockefeller rented the only vehicle available and rode to the White House as the sole passenger of a sightseeing bus. Not recognizing him, a White House official asked for his name. "John Rockefeller," he replied softly, not bothering to use his distinctive middle initial. Only after several more questions did the official realize that the tall, gaunt man before...
...pictures show a concentration camp on the Tvertsa River (a tributary of the Volga) near Torzhok, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The 18th century Borisoglebsky Monastery, with its church and tower-once a tourist attraction-has been converted into a prison for convicts who are marched into town to do heavy construction work...
...theme of this year's Biennale-that vast, sprawling international conspectus of current art that opens at irregular intervals in the public gardens of Venice and is one of the city's main tourist attractions-is "Dalla Natura All'Arte, Dall'Arte Alla Natura" (from nature to art, from art to nature). Appropriately, then, the star of the 1978 press week was not an artist but an animal...
...spokesman for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing called the bombing "a deplorable injury to an essential part of the French heritage." Indeed, the chateau that was once the residence of the Bourbon kings is now one of France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts...
...moved toward a well-worn rock that had long ago been staked out by sea lions, a huge bull came huffing toward us and made it all too plain that he wanted us off his favorite perch. Our retreat was a prudent move; a few weeks earlier, a German tourist who insisted on holding his ground lost a leg to another enraged bull. The visitors can also inflict damage, even when they have the best of intentions. Biologists on Santa Cruz, one of the 13 major islands in the archipelago, were mystified recently when some of the iguanas they were...