Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with editors of Florida weeklies. "Governor," said one, "do you think we are becoming top-heavy with tourism?" The governor answered gravely: "Not so long as we keep the rest of our house in order." The Leisured Masses. A cold snap in the northern states got Florida's tourist season off to an early start this year, for what may be its biggest season ever-and it looked as if Florida's tourism might take a lot of balancing. Miami Beach, the Riviera of the leisured masses, will draw 2,000,000 of Florida...
...testing spot of the cold war. In Berlin last week the cold war got perceptibly hotter. It all began when two junketing U.S. Congressmen, Massachusetts Democrat Edward P. Boland and New York Republican Harold C. Ostertag, motored into East Berlin to see one of the standard tourist sights: the ponderous Red army war memorial. They rode, accompanied by a U.S. Army Lieutenant, in a radio-telephone-equipped Army sedan. East German Volkspolizei approached the parked car and forced the party at pistol point to follow them to a nearby guardhouse. From there the Congressmen were taken to Soviet headquarters...
None of the columnists denied that Havana has plenty of unrestrained gaiety. And it is well known that the government believes in reasonable toleration of vice rather than puritanical suppression, which might bring more unemployment, a fall in tourist trade and a drop in the hard-working policeman's extracurricular income. But, as Conte Aguero summed it up: "Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny...
There are queues everywhere, most of all in the GUM, the big department store on Red Square, half Oriental bazaar and half Woolworth, where store police direct orderly lanes of purchasers first at the counters, then at the cashiers, finally at the delivery windows. The tourist is not likely to find anything he will want to buy at GUM. In the Metro underground, with its palatial stations of marble and glittering chrome, where escalators move at twice the speed of those in the New York subways, Muscovites seem just as glum and incurious as those in the streets. Many will...
About this time the visitor will begin to realize that the supercolossal production which is Moscow today is not being staged for him but for another kind of tourist. He will be aware that he is outnumbered, perhaps a hundred to one, by visitors from Asia...