Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popularity of the highway as a tourist attraction (annual revenue up from $476,000 in 1946 to more than $1,000,000 last year) that started News Staffer Verne Williams, 34, on the expose. With such big earnings, wondered Williams.why should the highway still charge a toll...
...this summer is concerned, most all-student ships and tourist-class accomodations on regular ships have been fully booked for months. There is always the chance of a cancellation, however, and applying now for reservations in June can do no harm. The special student sailings, when accomodations are available, cost approximately $160 one-way to Europe and, with the exception of swimming or getting a rare job on a tramp steamer, are probably the cheapest way of getting across. For details about these ships, and for information about any bookings, prices, or tours, the best plan is to consult...
...Regular tourist accomodations, which cost up to $40 more than student-ship fares are also nearly fully booked for this summer, but can still be obtained on certain ships leaving certain ports on certain dates. The student seeking one of these would do best to look for small ships which sail from Canadian ports, and which leave America either before or after the June 1--July 15 period. He'll probably still find, however, that it pays to make reservations up to a year in advance...
...above the tourist class, in the more expensive and less popular cabin first-class accomodations, leading steamship lines can still provide room on almost any sailing this summer. One-way prices range here from $220 to $285 for cabin berths, and from $325 up for first-class...
...surprisingly unrelieved by the fact that Vittorio de Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief} is directing the crowd in the waiting room. Jennifer Jones is "a housewife from Philadelphia," a mother who has taken a brief vacation from marriage. Montgomery Clift is an Italian college professor, the sort of tourist attraction Italy has offered to northern women since the days of the Ostrogoths. At one point he lures Jennifer into a darkened train compartment and gives her a clinching argument for not going home. Surprised by the terminal police, the lovers are haled before a magistrate, who tears up the morals...