Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Than a Sightseer. Throughout his thrilling day, John Glenn recorded the emotions and impressions of being the U.S.'s first tourist in orbital space. He had little sensation of speed. It was, he said, "about the same as flying in an airliner at, say, 30,000 feet, and looking down at clouds at 10,000 feet." During the daylight hours, he peered out his cabin window at the earth far below. Over California, he spotted part of the Imperial Valley to his left, and the Salton Sea; he could even pick out the irrigated acres around El Centro, where...
Budgeting for continuing U.S. aid through 1966. Wasfi Tal wants to spend $357 million to make Jordan self-sufficient in food, develop its small potash and phosphate industry, increase its annual tourist earnings from $11 million to $50 million, and provide new jobs for 90,000 unemployed. He pledges that Jordan's notoriously inefficient civil service will be overhauled from top to bottom...
With a 2,000-passenger capacity, the France follows the trend of postwar times in eliminating cabin class. Fares range from $3,403 for a suite for two in first class to $250 for a single berth in a four-passenger cabin in tourist...
...California to Australia, Singapore and Ceylon, on through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean to Britain, with many stops along the way. The Transvaal Castle is strictly one class, fixes its rates ($392 to $2,324) according to size and location of the cabins. The Canberra has first and tourist classes ($767 to $2,761) and an aluminum superstructure, which is so much lighter than the conventional steel that the designers have been able to add a whole extra deck for extra passenger facilities...
...Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could have sold Skouras $300,000 worth of stuff," he groans. That was the last time Swifty Lazar ever flew tourist...