Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the Dutch finally and handsomely acknowledged that legends could become real. Beside the 600-year-old Spaarndam Lock, the Dutch Tourist Association had erected a bronze statue of the boy, kneeling before the dike, finger in the hole...
...years favorite tourist attractions of the mellow old city of Verona have been an ancient house and a tomb which local guides stoutly insist are the home and the last resting place of Juliet Capulet. In 1937 the success enjoyed by these relics of Shakespeare's famed heroine became too much for the town fathers of Vicenza, a town 30 miles east of Verona. Two ancient castles stood in likely juxtaposition on Vicenza's hills and the town fathers began beckoning the tourist trade with tales that Romeo and Juliet spent their romantic summers there...
...turned into a tavern complete with medieval trappings and frescoes illustrating the great love story. A long-faced waiter, who obligingly changed his name from Mario to Romeo, served sentimental vacationists with specially prepared Scaloppe alla Giulietta e Romeo in the dining room. When supper was done, the tourists were led in awe to an upstairs bedroom to gape at Capulet relics that included, said the guides, the very bed in which Juliet had slept. Neither Vicenza nor the tourists cared in the slightest that Verona's tourist bureau stoutly denied the authenticity of both the castle...
...opened new routes to five South American countries (e.g., Brazil, Ecuador), and he is giving Pan Am and Panagra a race for their passengers. He set up a Braniff Business Bureau to bring Latin American goods north and export U.S. goods south, offered cut-rate tourist fares. He even drummed up business among Latin America-bound Chinese travelers in the Orient by distributing handbills that were printed in Chinese. On his gross of $18,438,140 last year, Braniff rang up a net profit...
...against the company this fall, charging that it failed to provide return tickets from Europe for a honeymoon cruise that he and his wife took last summer. Thus, he all edged, he and his wife had to come back to the United States in separate holds of a student tourist boat...