Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year. Pan Am's will be the Comet III, which Eastern Air Lines' Eddie Rickenbacker talked of buying (TIME, Sept. 8). The Comet III, said Trippe, will be powered by four Rolls-Royce Avon engines, and will be able to carry 58 first-class passengers (78 tourist class) at cruising speeds of 500 m.p.h. for 2,700 miles nonstop. It "will be the first jet transport," said Trippe, "able to operate efficiently over the principal routes of Pan American...
...volcano, which has no special name, is interesting to scientists because active volcanos in the western Pacific east of Hawaii are rare; this is the first that has erupted in historical times. But it probably will not last as long as Mexico's other new volcano, the tourist gold mine Paricutin...
...principals of The Quiet Man may not lure travelers to Ireland, but the scenery certainly will. The Technicolor countryside ought to make any tourist skip the Loire and travel west from Southampton instead...
...form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
...Europeans liked the company, the dancers returned the feeling with interest. Offstage they enthusiastically pursued the gourmet trail, gawked at the sights, suffered the usual tourist complaints (sniffles, upset stomachs). They all put on some weight, and thereby drew a rebuke from Purist Balanchine: "Some of them have become so fat it is difficult to look at them...