Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potsdamer Platz. Their mission: to prevent Germans from the British sector from distributing leaflets in the Soviet sector. As the four U.S. buses slowly circled the Potsdamer Platz, the tense Volkspolizei were facing a scornful West Berlin crowd safe behind the border rail of the British sector. A bus tourist, Charles Myers of Kansas City, tried to photograph the scowling Volkspolizei. The police spotted him, rushed to stop...
Tight Fit. As a youth, Escher knocked about Europe making prints that were ordinary enough to be used for tourist ads. The abstract mosaics of Spain's Alhambra changed his bent. Fascinated by the mosaics' flat, tight geometry, he set himself the task of making equally tight, equally geometrical and yet representational pictures. That meant fitting recognizable shapes together as neatly as tiles and alternating them to create flat patterns. Compared to some of the problems he has since set himself, it was easy...
Manhattan's art season was at its pre-Easter height, with more than 100 shows to choose from. No single tourist could take in all the city had to offer, but the cream of it could be seen in two or three jumps...
...tourist who wants to see all the sights turns his head continually from side to side. So does a new, monstrous aerial camera shown last week by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. By twisting its optical neck as it hangs in its airplane mount, it will be capable of taking a detailed picture of the whole state of Pennsylvania in one day of sightseeing...
...Winter trippers enjoyed the cockfights and mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...