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Svetlana flew in from Switzerland, where she had spent six weeks in secretive seclusion and "hard thinking" after having decided to remain in the West while on a visit to India (TIME, March 24). Although she entered the U.S. on a tourist visa that expires June 6, it was plain that the formalities of her entrance were unimportant and that she could stay in the U.S. as long as she wished. The process of getting her to the U.S. was a diplomatic nightmare. From the moment she appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi seven weeks ago and asked...
ITALY yearly improves the Autostrada linking up the main tourist cities north and south of Rome. The big question mark has been Florence, and the news is good: Florence is going to be more fascinating than ever. Of 31,555 art shops in the city, nearly 8,000 were ruined by last fall's floods; yet all but 150 will be back in business this summer. The city has not only recovered but has actually turned the flood damage into a high-powered attraction. Visitors can now take a guided tour of the Boboli Gardens, central "hospital" for damaged...
Wednesday, April 5 SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER, HOWARD MORRIS SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Stars of the oldtimer "Your Show of Shows" come back to spoof rock 'n' roll groups, the Paris tourist and Italian opera. The Billy Williams Quartet comes with them...
Lying 75 air miles east of Puerto Rico, the islands still have the scrubbed and simple air of a fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
...richest businessmen still walk to work rather than buy automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails to reflect sunlight into their musty offices. Until a new auto strada is completed in 1970, the main stretch of road along the tourist-heavy coastal route between Genoa and the French frontier will remain the two lane Via Aurelia, built by the ancient Romans. Whenever somebody suggests expanding the roads to Italy's interior, Genoese businessmen invariably ask: "Why? Just to let people from Milan come over here to have a good...