Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid on again, it would undoubtedly be more modest-fewer towns, fewer banquets. In fact Khrushchev had already sent word that in France he intended to confine himself to two courses and two wines per meal. The trip might also have to be shorter, for everybody's international tourist calendar is already jammed up: De Gaulle himself is scheduled to visit the Queen in London in three weeks, and Canada and the U.S. next month. Home is almost the last place to find a head of state these days...
...greatest number were aging Eastern European propagandists and journalists, who hardly seemed threats to anyone.* In Corsica, touted by French tourist agents as "the Isle of Beauty," the involuntary vacationers found themselves ensconced in resort hotels opened, by police order, a month before the normal tourist season. In their dark suits and berets, playing cards, smoking, engaging in the familiar polemic dialogues of expatriates, they transformed a cheerful, terraced Mediterranean café into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming...
...Mine. Few Americans realize the full splendor of Northern Renaissance because German and Flemish art has been far less widely dispersed than the Italian. Its major museum collections lie off the standard London-Paris-Rome tourist track. One of the best is at Munich, built up over centuries by the dukes and princes of Bavaria and now sheltered in the austerely classical Alte Pinakothek. The museum itself was completed by King Ludwig I in 1836. Allied bombs destroyed it in 1944, but the collection had been safely stored away in scattered castles and an Austrian salt mine. Rebuilt almost exactly...
...fact, such painters as Altdorfer and Dürer stand with Bach in music and Goethe in literature as German immortals. And Munich deserves a place on any art-loving tourist...
...EAST TOURIST BOOST will result from expanded jet service in 1960. Estimated 125,000 Americans, 15% more than last year, will travel beyond Hawaii to Far East and South Pacific, spend $130 million v. $117 million last year...