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...freedom from their backbreaking, dawn-to-dark work on the land. The war is brought home daily to Cairenes in the shabbiness of their once-exciting city, in the tomblike echoes of the airport terminal, in the empty streets of the Moussky shopping district, where donkeys now outnumber tourists???and in the constant shortages. For four years the capital's citizens have endured three consecutive meatless days a week. Luxury goods have been banned in order to conserve scarce foreign exchange for necessities. Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PAINFUL PRESIDENCY OF EGYPT'S NASSER | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Tourists???Don't visit Belgium, the land of prohibition and innumerable vexations, with taxes on hotel rooms, visitors' tax and other bothersome regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Frantic Victualers | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Tourists???Four months' prison for having a bottle of spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Frantic Victualers | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists???is the background for a good part of the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Books: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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