Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
...pick up a car at his destination, use it for 24 hours, drive it 50 miles without further charge. Another Avis idea, to be launched soon, is to supply cars for tours to scenic and historic spots in the U.S. For a price ranging from $10 to $100, the tourist will get a car, maps and guides, and in some cases overnight lodging...
...that has changed. Various kinds of tourist bureaus are now offering package tours to Europe which include, quite likely, a week or two in Moscow and Leningrad. Such a policy change is an encouraging development in the Cold War. With enough money, it has become possible to travel to almost any country in the world...
Money, however, is not everything. Nor is a group trip, which is devoted to "seeing the sights," a very satisfactory way to see, or even "to do," a country. With Intourist--the official, and only, Russian tourist agency--controling certain hotels in key cities and arranging all the details of a Russian excursion, an individual would find it all too easy to return from his flying tour behind the Iron Curtain with nothing more than a few snapshots ("Can you imagine, they actually let me take them!"), a few recollections (the Moscow subway, TV antennas, and slums...
...Malia's big advantages over the average tourist was his knowledge of Russian. Then, even though Intourist does control the hotels in all principal cities and does decide where one can or cannot go, Malia had unusual freedom in moving about the country. If he wanted to go somewhere where Intourist had no facilities, he could usually talk the officials into letting him go anyway...