Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...script goes bouncing along from gag to gag, and the next thing you know Bogart thinks the tourists own uranium-rich land, the English lady wants to run away with him, the rest of the mob wants in (on the uranium, not the lady), and the chilly British tourist asks for a hot water bottle but gets Gina Lollobrigida...
...wonderful winter-for penguins. Texas shivered in the blast of a rare "blue norther," Florida's pole bean and tourist crops were imperiled by frost, the temperature plunged to 22º below in Laramie, Wyo., and the entire northeast was smothered under snow that seemed to fall endlessly, making the average commuter feel his kinship to Nanook of the North...
...point more emphatically, the Chinese Communists are paying for more and more trips to Red China by Latin American labor leaders, politicians and students. In 1958 the number of visitors was 165; in 1960 it was 470. As soon as the tourist arrives he is greeted by his personal companion, guide and persuader. He is comfortably established in Peking's Peace Hotel, filled with good food in one of the hotel's two restaurants (one European, one Chinese) and then taken to hear the joyful songs of peasants toiling in the communes, to watch workers boosting norms...
Customarily in her gadding about, Britain's Princess Margaret has flown on Royal Air Force planes. But for a brief visit with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...