Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't realize," said a U.S. tourist in Turkey last week as he gaped at the devastation on all sides, "that Istanbul was so badly bombed during the war." A guide promptly reassured him that Turkey's largest and most famed city had never been a target for enemy bombers.* But what the explosives of wartime combatants had done in malice for the clutter of London and Berlin, the peaceful but restless ambition of Premier Adnan Menderes was doing for Istanbul...
Covering the Waterfront. In Springfield, Mass., a woman rushed up to Edward P. Hannigan, a tourist-booth attendant, breathlessly asked for directions to all the swimming places within a ten-mile radius, explaining that she had left her children at a pond and couldn't remember which...
...Mahal & Niagara Falls. Thanks to Disney's pixilating power to strike the youthful nerve in Americans, Disneyland is proving California's biggest tourist attraction since Hollywood. Of the visitors, 43% come from out-state, many of them drawn by the compelling lure of Disney's children's TV shows-which get paid $10 million a year for advertising Disneyland and forthcoming Disney movies. Said one parent: "Disneyland may be just another damned amusement park, but to my kids it is the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, Sherwood Forest and Davy Crockett all rolled into one. After years...
...Flop. In only one business venture-the tourist trade-has the dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...INNOCENT AMBASSADORS, by Philip Wylie (384 pp.; Rinehart; $4.95), whips around the world with America's most emotional writer. When not gawping at the tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously...