Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tourist driving on the right but wrong side of the road, or hopelessly demanding a drink at midnight, the London police seem paragons of patience. Whether breaking up a race riot or gingerly plucking anti-nuclear squatters from the pavement, the brawny, pink-cheeked bobby almost never resorts to the panicky brutality of the French flic or the officious zeal of the German Polizist. Britain's police, armed only with a night stick, still believe in pounding a beat. Its streets and parks after dark are among the world's safest; and while an English householder is away...
...five miles away - or spy out a distant rocket - and a humidity register so sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with a quick and painless puff...
Salami for Rubbernecks. Even to shuttle summer traffic through the country, Liechtenstein grudgingly has to double its police force, which consists normally of 18 men and a dog named Rex. The well-named Quick Tourist Office concentrates its energies on selling visitors Swiss watches, Belgian francs and Liechtenstein cuckoo clocks, which are made in West Germany. Since the country's medieval castles bear signs saying "No Castle Visiting," insistent rubbernecks usually get to see the salami skin factory or else one of two plants where strikingly healthy Liechtensteiners turn out false teeth and artificial limbs for world markets...
...Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed to see only 75 of Franz Josef's lesser pictures, which are sandwiched into a modest building in Vaduz along with the tourist office and the national postage-stamp museum. The closest the Liechtenstein family comes to sharing its greatest paintings with the world is allowing them to appear occasionally on one of the nation's famed postage stamps...
...percentage of the student leaders in Latin America come from humble homes. The capitalism they know has many times only demonstrated poverty and hunger. Generally the only travel they have done has been to a local beach or tourist place in their country. All they know about the States is through newspaper, cinema etc. This information is not for them an axiomatic truth, as communist propaganda isn't for them either...