Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first the Soviets let him in for one week only as a ''tourist." Then they gave him press accreditation allowing him to work, but putting him on a month-to-month basis, assuring him that he would ultimately be permanently accredited. Two weeks ago they zigzagged completely. The Soviets said that they had nothing against Connery or his work, but that if TIME was allowed to expand its bureau, they would have to let too many other Western correspondents...
...Switzerland, where the government reported last week that they had bought 50% of all real estate sold since January 1961. Swiss retreats have long been favored by such Top Germans as Steel Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, whose Lugano villa houses an art collection that has become a big tourist attraction. But many of the country's plushest pads now belong to West Germany's top movie stars, including Curt Jürgens and Caterina Valente. After Nadja Tiller settled into a handsome hillside villa in Ticino, Actress Romy Schneider picked up a palatial lakeside chateau...
...much speculation that he loathed Walter Ulbricht's nasty East German regime. But in public, at least, he could scarcely have been more obliging: he denounced West Germany, demanded Western withdrawal from Berlin and an early peace treaty. He visited the Wall, the world's most obscene tourist attraction, and signed a visitors' book, inscribing, "Hearty greetings to the soldiers standing watch on the borders of the German Democratic Republic...
...outwaits a series of grotesque fellow-tourist suitors who make fools of them selves by groveling before the peanut-butter-and-raisin-bread-chomping child as if paying homage to a Greek goddess...
...Place de la Concorde now gleams a pale ochre; the massive Corinthian columns of the Madeleine glow a soft pink; the Louvre no longer tattles of neglect. Years of recorded tourist history ("Ronald loves Irma," "Vincenza e Giorgio," "Stan from Council Bluffs. 82nd Airborne. 1945"). scribbled in the stubborn grime, is being erased by a soap that removes dirt but leaves a protective mineral covering on the stone. More than 2.300 buildings and monuments have been washed...