Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is a certain type of American tourist who is so afraid that he will be taken for an American tourist that he refuses to be seen carrying a guidebook. If he has one at all, he leaves it in the hotel room or disguises it in the dust-jacket of the latest Taylor Caldwell novel. But he is the exception. The great majority of tourists want their guidebooks for advice, companionship and a sense of security...
...Americans succeeded the British and the Germans as the world's most tireless travelers, the proliferation of guidebooks has more than matched the tourist pace. U.S. bookstores now stock at least 50 guides to European countries, regions and cities which, despite the growing lure of Asia and North Africa, remain America's favorite tourist areas. There are also shopping guides, money guides and no-money guides; at least five paperbacks tell how to tour the Continent on the cheap. The Rich Man's Guide to Europe is due out next month, and there is already one guidebook...
...Gomulka had already vetoed a visit to Czestochowa by Pope Paul VI to celebrate a millennial Mass, but now he seemed intent on keeping Catholics of all ranks-as well as others-away. Visas have been denied to the 150 foreign bishops, archbishops and cardinals invited to Czestochowa. Polish tourist offices in Europe and the U.S. have been blandly advising that visas will not be granted to Western pilgrims, who were originally expected to number 3,000,000. One explanation: "The country will already be too full of tourists." As for TV and newspaper coverage, some 125 Western newsmen...
...hard to tell who is right. When IATA was established, a first-class round-trip ticket between New York and London cost $650. Now, with many more planes and a much stiffer competitive situation, that same ticket costs $712.50. But under IATA auspices a whole range of cheaper tickets-tourist class, economy class and excursion rates-has been introduced, so that the truly thrifty tourist can now fly from New York to London and back for as little...
Most Sensitive Point. Amnesty's weapons are moral suasion strengthened with a potent brew of publicity. This is the kind of pressure, says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...