Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment. Legislative modification of the Blue Laws is predicted for early 1962, though Volpe doubts that the Legislature will accept either the minority or the majority report of his commission. The President of the State Senate is confident that the problem will be solved by the beginning of the tourist season, which is obviously when it matters most since that's when money flows in greatest quantities. Fortunately, there are no holidays between Thanksgiving and Christmas...
Promised Monuments. Having reduced the attractions available in the Red Square mausoleum-one of Moscow's top tourist centers-Khrushchev hastened to make up for the loss. He inaugurated a huge, brand-new, Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor...
SINCE the death of Stalin, American readers have each year been subjected to the same stock exposes of the spuriousness of Soviet production figures, the tyranny over free expression, the prohibitions against tourist photography, etc., all written by eager reporters just back from their first encounter with Russian travel and anxious to show that they too can write a New York Times Magazine article. Yet, from time to time, an excellent travel account by an expert in Soviet affairs is published: Maurice Hindus' new book is just such an exception...
...father walked out on them right after his son was born. From the first, Mama knew her son would be the greatest. She took on a bewildering series of jobs so that he might be well dressed and well fed. She designed clothes, read palms, hawked jewelry, ran a tourist hotel. He would be a great violinist, a great actor, a great dancer...
...North which appears to be at about the same economic level as most of Austria. Buildings are in good repair, people are reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...