Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find out. Perhaps V. stands for Venezuela, and an abortive political plot of the turn of the century. Perhaps it stands for Vesuvius, or for Valletta, the capital of Malta. More likely, but not at all certainly, it is the first initial of the name of a mysterious girl tourist, Victoria Wren, who vanished in 1901 but turns up in different guises at times of riot or political intrigue. Victoria wears a glass eye whose iris is a clock face...
...calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...
...melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction of a new building by chewing through a strong box and gobbling the blueprints; dim Ginza bars have regular, unscheduled blackouts whenever rats gnaw through power lines, a never-failing taste treat. When a U.S. tourist was assured by the manager of a luxurious Ginza hotel that he couldn't possibly have seen a rat "as big as a cat" in his room, the American bought a rat trap, showed up at the reservation desk the next day triumphantly lugging a ¾-lb. Rattus norvegicus...
...with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season, probably 100,000 costumes will be rented. At some events the men sport tuxedos rented for 120 forints (the average Hungarian earns 1,600 forints a month, or $70 at tourist exchange rates), and the ladies wear old remodeled party dresses...
Gone from England. But it is a piece of inside knowledge, so inside that it is known to nearly every tourist nursing his $20 bottle of champagne, that these famed ornaments of Paris' naughty night life are not French at all-just English girls who would be hard-pressed to manage a convincing ooh-la-la. The Bluebells are Europe's most famous dancing girls. All told, there are 120 of them; Bluebells were dancing last week not only at the Lido but at Las Vegas, on Italian TV and in Tokyo. Although they are known...