Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identity of Views. For his twelve days in the U.S., Adenauer had an arduous diplomatic, social and tourist schedule (from the capital he flew to San Francisco, thence to Chicago). He dined with old friends, e.g., Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and new acquaintances, e.g., John D. Rockefeller Jr., 79 (of whom Adenauer said: "I really do not understand why he is still called Junior"). He was touched by his visit to Arlington Cemetery, where a U.S. Army band played The Star Spangled Banner and the Deutschlandlied (purged version of Deutschland Uber Alles...
Balboa's harried cops arrested 36 minors for possession of liquor, 122 for lesser offenses, and fired 150 others back home to their parents for safekeeping. Before the week ended, many an irate citizen in both Balboa and Fort Lauderdale was crying that all the tourist money in the world didn't compensate for the uproar...
Designed primarily for the tourist trade, the seven-car ETR 300 can carry 160 reserved-seat passengers in luxury-a dining car that seats 56, a bar, souvenir shop second observation car in the rear and three hostesses, who speak four languages between them. Each compartment has a radio and earphones; a "services" car features seven hot & cold showers...
...tourists, except retired multimillionaires, could ever find time or money to travel so high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command...
...Even before, however, gadabouts like Seixas & Co. were not much restricted in their gadding. The U.S.L.T.A.'s "emancipation proclamation" merely changed the text to fit long-existing facts. Whenever the eight weeks' rule was not honored in the breach, it was usually bypassed with exceptions. The tennis tourist's new year-round freedom to live off the fat of many lands will, nonetheless, add many new stops to old itineraries. Davis Cup Team Captain Seixas sees himself as a sort of ambassador. Says he: "You are not playing just for yourself, but for your country...