Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen-who spent the war years in Canada and lived in Massachusetts during the summers of 1942 and 1944-acted less like a celebrity than a tourist returning to familiar haunts. The crowds along the way as she was driven into the city in an open White House car were friendly but undemonstrative, and she beamed at them as if she felt they were taking a good, sensible attitude...
European artisans, merchants, and financeers still look forward to the summer influx of American tourists, but no longer with the wild abandon of the never-never days. With the rising percentage of students in the tourist crowd, the innocents abroad are becoming discriminate as to where they'll lose their innocence, and in what manner...
Boosted by the believe-it-or-not feeling that this is the last chance to see Europe before it all turns into atomic dust, travel figures are expected to set a record. With this in mind, airline, ship, and tourist agencies of all sizes and descriptions are offering, particularly to students, a variety of cut-rate package deals. Some are hokum, some...
Three of La Prensa's newsmen quickly found jobs in the classified ad department of another paper. They were fired as soon as their names turned up on the government blacklist. Others who tried to work in department stores, tourist and export agencies met the same fate. One top editor is now a door-to-door washing machine salesman. Others give private language lessons, work in hardware stores or small shops under assumed names. Not one has a newspaper...
...stark emotion George Kelly tries to get across in "Lament" bogs down in stilted verbiage, and Robert Layzer's "Absence" so snares itself in its own vague analogies that it drifts into incomprehensibility. "Southwest," by Charles Neuhauser, is better, particularly for the crisp language used to describe a desert tourist town...