Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling, attentive, the King swiftly flipped through the Washington tourist spots dressed in djellabah. He accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree from George Washington University, visited Washington's new mosque, Bashir Ahmad, flew down to colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At the restored Governor's Palace, a guide told the King that "as elegant as the place is, there were limited washroom facilities [in colonial times]." Confessed the King wryly: "We have the same trouble...
Arriving in the U.S. this week for talks with President Eisenhower as well as a two-week tourist's-eye peek at the nation: Mohammed V, 48, King of Morocco...
...works. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the greatest of the Habsburg collectors, added still more paintings during his rule as governor of The Netherlands. The Habsburg collection, hidden in salt mines during World War II and then sent traveling for seven years, is now back in place, a favorite tourist stop that draws from 3,000 to 4,000 visitors a day during the peak summer tourist season...
...scheduled status. Civil Aeronautics Board certified Trans Carib for five round trips daily on the lucrative New York-Puerto Rico run, which Trans Carib has been servicing until now as a supplemental carrier, i.e., only ten scheduled flights a month. Trans Carib plans charging $45 for one-way tourist fares v. $64 charged by competing Pan American and Eastern...
...culture seems very much American-oriented; "hot" jazz, "rock and roll," and American movies dominate. The only calypso one hears outside of the tourist traps comes off of Belafonte records. (This isn't quite true. Calypso is native to Trinidad and is heard at great length at the spring festival there when hundreds of of tents spring up and one master alternates with another in competition in composing these engaging ditties...