Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military cargoes, relief supplies and some economic aid. Ships with EGA cargoes could sail, the N.M.U. decreed, in cases where the Government labeled them "defense cargoes." Foreign-registry ships were free to come & go. Principal victims: U.S. passenger ships, just now gliding into the main rush of the annual tourist traffic...
Council of War. Into the family car John Amborski loaded his wife, second son John, 18, three daughters and one of young John's suits. They drove 400-odd miles to Fort Leonard Wood, found Stanley weak and ill. After a midnight council of war in a tourist camp, the Amborskis returned to the post next morning, picked a quiet spot behind some bushes for Stanley to change into civvies, drove him out past the guards and back to Chicago...
...bright idea had come to Old Oxonian Stacey when he got to thinking about Britain's festival year. Why, he wondered, shouldn't Oxford students themselves cash in on the tourist-trade boom? His undergraduate friends agreed, and within a few days he had signed up 90 of them to act as guides at IDS. a tour. He gave them careful instructions ("You know, point out the Dean's bathroom and that sort of thing"), and to add a bit of glamour, he even hired some London models to accompany each bus out of London and point...
Concert of Europe (Sun. 5 p.m., ABC), tape-recorded in Paris, is being broadcast in the U.S. by ECA to promote both the tourist industry and international good will. Concert features Actor Claude (The Happy Time) Dauphin as M.C., a French orchestra of impressive musicianship and a new conductor each week from one of the 18 Marshall Plan countries. The first: Switzerland's Otto Osterwalder...
...spring night in 1878, a lanky, redheaded American tourist from Detroit walked the streets of London thinking about life and trying to decide what to do with his own. At 23, Edward Wyllis Scripps was already city editor of his brother's Detroit Evening News, but that night he decided that it was folly to work for anybody but himself. He also threw overboard the idea that all men were created equal: "Sadly I acknowledged to myself that the world was composed of a very small class of slave drivers and a very, very large class of slaves...