Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourists are snobs of sorts, chiefly two: newness snobs and oldness snobs. Two well-traveled igth century U.S. writing men, Mark Twain and Henry James, stand like archsentinels at these two poles. Twain, the apostle of modernity, prized Italian railroads "more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless art treasures." Antiquarian Henry James found the restoration of Venice's St. Mark's "crude" and "monstrous," even though the basilica might otherwise have crumbled about the pigeons in the Piazza San Marco.*This conflict adds a fillip to two thoroughly engaging travel books that should please the chairborne...
ECONOMY FLIGHTS are whopping success on North Atlantic, comprise 45% of Pan Am's traffic, 50% of T.W.A.'s, 73% of Swissair's. One result: tourist class, which costs $315 one way to London v. $252 for economy, may be eliminated...
Schnell Bier. In Auerbach, West Germany, a tavern owner got a letter from the United States containing 6? from a tourist who said he had forgotten to pay for a beer...
Whatever Franco's intentions, the prince made it clear that his first loyalty was to his father. In Washington, visiting the usual tourist attractions, Prince Juan Carlos became one himself as women employees of the Library of Congress pressed noses against windows to watch him pass. He attended an embassy reception and parties given by Mrs. Merriweather Post and Perle Mesta. A dinner guest wondered if his extensive military training would help fit him to be King. "Madame," smiled the prince, "it is charming of you to ask such a question, but it is my father who is going...
SHIP v. PLANE RACE for tourist supremacy on North Atlantic will be won by planes this year for first time. Air passengers on Atlantic run will jump about...