Word: tourists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mexico, Brazilian diplomats called on influential Mexican authorities to convince them that it would be a good idea to keep Lázaro Cárdenas at home. Brazil's embassy in Mexico City then announced that a new rubber stamp was needed to validate tourist cards-and apologized to waiting Mexican and Cuban delegations that the stamp had not yet arrived from Brazil. It never...
Even then, Zermatt officials publicly pooh-poohed rumors of an epidemic. The Zermatt Tourist Office pronounced Zermatt's water "99.93% pure," while local citizens denounced the "foreign sensationalist press" for reporting the gossip...
Last week Zermatt was regretting its laxity. Already dead were three Zermatt citizens and a British tourist. At least 350 confirmed or suspected cases of typhoid had been traced to recent Zermatt visitors in Switzerland and eight foreign countries. Little Zermatt was suddenly in the headlines all over the world. Virtually all the 10,000 tourists had staged a hurried exodus, leaving Zermatt a ghost town occupied by 120 green-uniformed Swiss army medical corpsmen. By sealed train and helicopter, the army men evacuated local victims, and health inspectors poking through Zermatt's water system discovered the probable cause...
Both Raffaello and Michelangelo will be among the most luxurious and comfortable passenger ships afloat. Each will carry 1,800 people (540 first class, 560 cabin, 700 tourist) in roomy cabins, have 30 salons and six swimming pools, closed-circuit TV, overall air conditioning and 18 elevators to serve eleven decks. (Still highly sensitive to the Andrea Doria disaster, the line has also installed extra watertight compartments and two modern radar systems.) The new ships' motto is ''Living like a lord." For passengers who find it hard to relax even amid such luxury, the Italian Line will...
...peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban rum he had bought at the airport, and things got livelier...