Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to the door and he could duck out when the going got hot. After his speech, Truman shook hands all around and moved ahead on his visitors' schedule. When a Washington Star cartoon showed him standing outside the White House fence with camera in hand, Tourist Truman said: "Well, I'd rather be on the outside looking in than on the inside looking...
...their music. They can usually make a deal at the saloon. And many a pretty lady's maid has succumbed to such seductive boleros as Even If You Kill Me, I Love You. Says Hurdy-Gurdy Man Angeles Reyes: "My cilindro gives me food, pulque and love." The tourist bureaus, hotelkeepers and the poor all agree that motorized Mexico must save a place for the strolling cilindrero if the country is to keep its soul...
Along 30 miles of river, on either side of the mining and tourist town of Salida (pop. 5,000), Theo Bock, 43, and Erich Seidel, 26, members of the Munich Kayak Club, scrambled along the bank, noting treacherous crosscurrents, whirlpools, lurking rocks. Their Teutonic thoroughness was warranted...
...carriage, gained by balancing burdens on their heads. They dress up in expensive, full-skirted costumes, often rich purple or Turkey red; at fiestas they wear necklaces made from old U.S. five-to 50-dollar gold pieces. Easy-laughing, they are honest, independent and, as the bulging-eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself and thus...
...Avellino last week, the 35th and latest in Marzotto's chain of "Jolly Hotels" opened its doors. Like the others, Avellino's three-story, 41-room hotel is designed for "the masses of small tourists with small means but a natural desire for comfort, cleanliness and amusement. There are few carpets, but plenty of bathrooms, few chandeliers but ice water in every room." Rates on tourist floors average $2 a night, and for $6 a tourist can get board and lodging, including use of a swimming pool. To 58-year-old Tourist Marzotto, one of Italy...