Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where oldtimers still sip icy martinis on the veranda and watch the river ride by. The presence of the High Dam and the threatened antiquities above Aswan have bred a burgeoning tourist trade, and each day the 50-passenger hydrofoil Cleopatra roars up from Aswan at 30 m.p.h. to visit the historic sites that will soon be lost to mankind...
ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze, as well as Paris scenes. One hundred works cover 49 years. Through...
Their version of Tales of Hoffmann, with principals live and all secondary characters on film, has long been the major tourist attraction of Prague. Laterna's Munich engagement is one of its few appearances outside the Iron Curtain since the Brussels World's Fair, and Laterna Magika techniques, curiously enough, have been used in quite minor ways in both the Du Pont and Texas shows at the present New York World's Fair. This summer the Laterna Magika company itself will cross the Atlantic for the first time. A four-month tour of the U.S. will begin...
...historians believe that cave art had magical meaning, purposely put in as cramped a space as possible in a sort of protective return to the womb. Though in an area famous for its subterranean paintings, its very magic may keep the new underground art gallery from ever becoming a tourist attraction. Only the hardiest visitors could crawl down to see the treasures 320 ft. below the surface of the Lot Valley...
...race horses that had been bought by a California banker with embezzled funds, has also held resort hotels, antiques, furs and whisky warehouses. Occasionally the agency is even able to operate such enterprises more profitably than the original owners. It turned an abandoned Idaho gold mine into a tourist attraction, and still owns a Texas oilfield that earns $3,000 monthly...