Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Think at Home. Starting at Harvard, where psychologists tested them on their prejudices (and will test them when they return), Jaeger's 22 protégés have swept westward since September on one tourist flight after another. Each carries 44 lbs. of baggage, a dwindling $300 in pocket money. Behind them: Boston, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo. Ahead: Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo (midyear exams), Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London (final exams). So far only one student has been lost; he missed the plane in Baltimore, caught up next...
...best section of the book consists of a dozen of the Boz sketches, where Dickens roves through the gin shops, the courts, the dawn-lit and night-curtained alleys of London with the gusto of a tourist and the unsentimental eye of a bobby covering his beat. But the rest of Charles Dickens' Best Stories is no match for the memory of Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge...
...reports the tourist, "an angel all over the Krémlin." Decent Marxists, of course, are not supposed to believe in supernatural beings, but they might find it easier to believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel with her nanny, dog Weenie and turtle Skipperdee. Two years ago her devoted biographers, Nightclub Comic Kay Thompson and Illustrator Hilary Knight, described how she cut a rug at Maxim's in Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where...
...live near Miami and glower across the Straits of Florida at Fidel Castro, last week's opportunity for a propaganda blow was irresistible: 2,000 U.S. travel agents were freeloading on Castro in Havana in a convention dedicated to the fatuous proposition that present-day Cuba is a tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine...
...travel agents, gathered in their hotels, Castro tourist officials solemnly declared that onetime Hero Matos was a "counterrevolutionary, a running dog of the plantation owners." Then, just as Castro, returning from Camaguey, stepped out of his helicopter in downtown Havana, the DC-3 from Florida roared low over the skyline and dumped its load of white pamphlets...