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Next week Madame Tussaud's, a company that has been shaping history, so to speak, since 1835, joins us in our endeavor. Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist attraction in London, has created a special TIME 100 exhibit featuring the likenesses of figures such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Beatles, Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom have been named in our TIME 100 issues: Leaders and Revolutionaries (April 13, 1998), Artists and Entertainers (June 8, 1998) and Builders and Titans...
...punkcore and camp aesthetic. It was clear he would never sell insurance. Although, give him a window, some marabou and froufrou, and he could probably sell it by the box. Give him stuffed cats, trash cans, smashed televisions, 15,000 Q-tips, and he could become the other big tourist attraction of New York City. Which...
...tourist destination in the state, Faneuil Hall is a mecca for mainstream clothing stores like the Gap, Ann Taylor and Express. So is Harvard Square, the No. 2 destination, and home to those stores as well Structure and, soon, Abercrombie & Fitch...
Before anyone else, he believed in airline travel as something to be enjoyed by ordinary mortals, not just a globe-trotting elite. In 1945 other airlines didn't think or act that way. Trippe decided to introduce a "tourist class" fare from New York to London. He cut the round-trip fare more than half, to $275 ($1,684 in today's dollars, which makes current pricing a bargain, right?). This went over like a lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didn't want to hear about...
...find one route where the cartel could not thwart him: New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pan Am's one-way fare was $75, and the flights were packed. Finally, in 1952, Trippe's relentless attacks on the I.A.T.A. forced all airlines to accept the inevitability of tourist class. But by then his vision had taken off for its next destination...