Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spencer Tracy in San Francisco, or pouring the carafe of water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...
...prove that he got them from the mainland before 1950. But J. D. Chen boasted that he had of late been doing quite well without going to the bother of getting licenses at all: if a U.S. customer wanted one of his treasures, Chen would get a friend, a tourist or even a diplomat to take the object into the U.S. as a personal belonging. So far, no one in customs had questioned the declarations of these unwitting agents, but to the U.S. official Chen blabbed to, it seemed like a clear case of smuggling...
...TOURIST IN AFRICA (201 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
Zanier than Azania. As usual, Waugh is his own best character, full of a fascinating collection of human quirks, crotchets and quaverings. The most notable and characteristic scene in the book is the one where Tourist Waugh is induced to address a secretarial class at a Tanganyika commercial school on the subject of how to write English. Reports Waugh: "Like a P. G. Wodehouse hero I gazed desperately at the rows of dark, curious faces. 'Well.' I said. 'well. I have spent fifty-four years trying to learn English and I find I still have recourse...
...countries. Though U.S. carriers complain that TCA can chop fares only because it has government support, U.S. lines will probably have to follow suit to stay competitive (See BUSINESS). Bound to suffer: Canada's railroads, which already lose money on their cross-continent runs (one-way tourist fare, including a berth but no meals or extras: $115.40). TCA Boss McGregor is not concerned about his competitors. "The lower we can keep fares without getting into a chronic deficit position," he says, "the better it will be for both TCA and the traveling public...