Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London's Gatwick Airport. The Daedalus Travel Agency in New York, bookers of their charter flight, had failed to provide a plane for the return trip. When the Americans sent a deputation to the U.S. embassy, they were "totally disillusioned," in the words of Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel put the travelers up for a night in $20-a-day rooms without charge, and British...
Blanket weaving as serious art? Once the staple of the trading-post tourist trade, the best of Navajo blankets have gone on display in Los Angeles and receive a critical look in this week's Art section. As for fashions of a more modern weave, the Modern Living section's Shirley Rigby took the measure of the new popularity of palazzo pants for a story on baggy trousers...
...Navajo blanket-mostly in the form of machine-made imitations-has long been a popular product for the tourist trade. Brightly colored, durable, it will serve to cover a grand piano or enliven a teen-ager's den. Only in recent years has it become apparent that the Navajos are a tribe of unusual vitality, and that the blankets they made during the 19th century express a remarkable artistic spirit...
...whose sensuous, never-never-land tones made the record so popular, is now retired, but last week, at 59, she published her memoirs, recalling her surprise at Lilli's phenomenal success. To commemorate the lamplight girl's international appeal, the publishers threw a party aboard a Russian tourist steamer docked in Vienna on its way to Germany. "If I stayed aboard, I might finally get to Belgrade," observed Miss Andersen. "I've never been there...
...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '76 spends its first reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...