Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wears 10A." With such courtesies attended to, Jackie boarded a special air-conditioned train for a look at India's tourist attractions. At Fatehpur Sikri, she watched in fascination as breechclothed youths made a risky, 100-ft. dive off a rampart into a well-and then did it all over again when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense...
...around the city campuses, the scientists, the editors, the admen, the garment workers) or by their special interests at play (the bowlers, the painters, the weekend sailors). It is they who supply the metropolitan vitality. Unhappily, the part of the metropolis that advertises itself most blatantly to the passing tourist points to the jazz joints on Rush Street or the celebrity seekers in the Peppermint Lounge. Luckily for civilization, the flint of genius strikes its sparks generously on the steel of the city. Artists, writers, philosophers, scientists-all have made the city their natural habitat...
Everywhere he went-seeing the tourist sights or the less glamorous slums of Hong Kong; seeing the self-sufficient and happy country of Thailand, where he was startled by big-screen TV sets on the porches of modest canalside Bangkok houses; calling on editors, businessmen and civil servants in India-Auer was impressed by how well our correspondents know their areas, "how quickly they can get you in to see someone-and their knowledge of all the good restaurants in Asia." And he took proprietary pleasure in finding TIME on the newsstands everywhere in Asia, even at tiny and badly...
...veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel near Acapulco, in Mexico. The hotelkeeper, the Widow Maxine Faulk, played by Bette Davis, is a hostage to devil-in-the-flesh sensuality. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal), a defrocked clergyman turned tourist guide, is spooked by guilt. As a man who was barred from his church for committing "fornication and heresy in the same week," O'Neal seems agonizingly nailed to a cross of nerves. Nonno (Alan Webb), a 97-year-old poet, is the prisoner of art and age, struggling between memory lapses to finish a new poem. Hannah...
...Hotelevision, but the gimmick is the same: a repeating half-hour program to be launched at the Sheraton-Park Hotel and the Shoreham late in March. In addition to standard what-to-do-and-see features, Hotelevision will run stock market news, show slides and film clips of key tourist spots such as the White House. Various companies hope to open circuits in other U.S. cities in the future...