Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines are not only talking about lowering fares but resorting to gimmicks to entice passengers into their empty cabins. Into New York Harbor last week cruised the Queen Mary with a novel come-on: 20 slot machines set up in the first-and cabin-class smoking rooms and the tourist lounge. All the way across the Atlantic, the "fruit machines" (as the Cunard Line labeled the one-armed bandits) did a brisk business. "The slot-machine area was the busiest place on the boat, busier even than the bar," reported Passenger Stanton Griffis, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Poland...
...British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone so far south that his new play. The Night of the Iguana, is set in Acapulco, with Patrick O'Neal playing a defrocked minister turned tourist guide serving as a psychological shepherd for Bette Davis and Margaret Leighton (Dec. 28). A. E. Hotchner, whose text adaptations of Ernest Hemingway short stories have been scattered across the past two television seasons, has prepared The Short Happy Life for Broadway, based on 15 Hemingway stories, with a cast...
...standing with John Kennedy. But Bowles himself continued, as if unaware, on his energetic way. In Nicosia he attended six dinner parties in a single evening. Mrs. Bowles and other State Department wives, brought along at Government expense, spent part of their time at the conferences, part visiting local tourist attractions. At Lagos' Faji market they mixed with the local women, moved one Nigerian to comment on the U.S. wives: "These women are beautiful and well taken care of by their husbands." One aide waxed enthusiastic about wives: "It's a stroke of genius. They have so much...
Whether this wide and strange office will ever fit into the American pattern of compartmentalized efficiency remains to be seen. The incumbent, New York-born Alfred Rinaldi, a veteran tourist guide, is nervous as he puts on his frock coat with the traditional crossed keys and takes up his position behind the desk. Says he defiantly: "I will try to get to the bottom of any trouble there...
...gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...