Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full of All Actions. Since weekly boxing is one of Bangkok's biggest tourist attractions, the fight programs have helpful and somewhat startling translations for English-speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...
...rates for special student tourist flights across the North Atlantic during the summer have been ended...
...marquise has sold all the historic tapestries, paintings and furniture," complained the contractor's attorney. Last week the château was put up for auction. The townspeople, outbidding everyone else, bid 20 million francs ($57,000) for the sagging but prized tourist attraction. "We shall do everything possible," promised the mayor, "to repair and preserve its marvelous heritage...
...Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses' knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose U.S. visit is unofficial, apparently evaded most of the lacquered talons, went quietly about sightseeing like any other tourist in the big city for the first time. At week's end, with just as little fuss, she moved on to Washington, D.C., was soon swallowed up by the British embassy...
...Guillermo Palmieri. tourist bureau chief under Arbenz, said last week that the money was used to make the last payment on the celebrated shipment of Iron Curtain arms that Arbenz imported from Poland...