Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had insufficient equipment -even though he had six cameras, electronic flashguns and enough lighting gear to illuminate the Kremlin's largest chambers. But the pictures he came back with added up to an exclusive color portfolio for this week's report on Moscow for the Tourist...
...professionals at the rumpled, old-shoe geniality routine, Mister Bulganin and Mister Khrushchev, preceded always by the heavy-footed scuffle of scores of security guards, waved their hats to thousands, dispensed autographs to clusters of children, gaped with tourist-like awe at sights and monuments. At one point, when a crowd sprinkled rose petals on Khrushchev's bald pate, Bu1ganin happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went...
...tourist who decides for Moscow next year will risk his life, not in the dark cells of the Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes...
...Bermuda Tourist Association, sponsor of Rugby Week, has instituted a new policy this year by sending the invitations to the athletic associations of the colleges concerned, instead of straight to the rugby clubs. A cover note requests that "a representative be appointed by your association to accompany the team and be responsible for it while in Bermuda...
...rebuilders finish April 15, the inside of 11 Rue Scribe will be a supermodern island of U.S. business efficiency in the old world. Gone will be the curlicued wrought iron balustrades, the clutter of desks on the ground floor, the buckety old elevators so useful to a lonely tourist trying to strike up an acquaintanceship with a pretty Iowa schoolmarm. In their place will be $750,000 worth of electronic gadgets, air conditioning, an escalator and labor-saving business machines. Last week, as traditionalists complained, American Express President Ralph T. Reed explained: "Travel has become big business...