Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, he has been to enough familiar and remote places to know better than to be beguiled by tourist brochures. But in the course of a 13-day tour through Communist Albania, on which he reports this week, Behr found the gap between fact and pictured fancy even wider than he expected. "Visiting Albania." he said, "is like putting the clock back and waking up in the Balkans of the 16th century, with telephone wires, modern weapons, and a little motor transport added...
Behr's guide was well aware that he was no tourist, but decided that throwing him out of the country was pointless. In turn. Behr knew that the driver of their touring car was a member of the secret police. To divert the guide's attention while a photographer took pictures. Behr (in fractured German) tried to engage him in conversation. Once, when the guide mentioned that he had translated Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage, into Albanian, Behr diverted him by describing at length a meeting with Brecht in Paris in 1953. Behr found the guide...
...such bad blisters that he could not wear shoes put on heavy socks and trotted the six-mile race just to keep his patrol in the competition. Eight of the boys brought off an unscheduled mountain rescue, climbing 2½ hours to save a Baltimore tourist who had suffered a heart attack on a 13,000-ft. ridge near Snowmass Mountain...
...Strictly tourist-even to amazed airline officials, tourist class-the mayor, his wife and two boys, flew to Rome, where Wagner found the Eternal City in the midst of a mayoralty squabble. Then to Berlin, where he inspected the Wall, commenting: "It's the same as if you needed a passport to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan." He lunched with Frankfurt's Burgermeister and dropped in on bucolic Nastatten (pop. 2,600), from which his father, the late U.S. Senator, emigrated. Made an honorary citizen, Wagner asked if he could vote in the city elections. The literal Germans...
...West Side. Billed as the "world's largest motel," the 20-story Motor Inn sits improbably among tatty warehouses beside the piers where the transatlantic liners dock, and offers its customers, along with free parking, a spectacular view of the Hudson. Judging from the first curious-tourist turnout, business should be good. But far from taking this as encouragement to go on to even bigger things. Sheraton President Ernest Henderson, 65, has just canceled $25 million worth of further expansion. His reason: the Wall Street crash...