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...free use of the Tabernacle, the famed meetinghouse built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait outside), no toilet facilities and no upholstery upon its hardwood benches. Its acoustics are very tricky: a tourist standing 200 feet away can hear a pin drop on stage, but the echo from the vaulted ceiling can be so bad that a new drummer once played the entire Ravel Bolero four beats late. The new arts center will be ready...
...Hampshire's quadrennial tourist boom that ended Tuesday produced more nays than yeas...
...dead, 66,000 wounded, at least 1,000,000 homeless.* Amid the miasma of death, new clouds of dust rose from 800 smaller aftershocks that continued to frighten the country; nonetheless, Guatemalans cleared away rubble to make way for rebuilding. Optimists even talked about a revival of the lucrative tourist trade, which provides Guatemala with $85 million a year in foreign exchange...
...Coleman dealt with the argument that the Concorde would only be a plaything or a convenience for the very rich, since the proposed fare for a New York-London round trip was $1,360, v. $1,156 on a regular jet for a first-class ticket-and $584 for tourist class in winter. In the past, the Secretary pointed out, wealthy passengers have been the first to pay the extra fares to ride on new aircraft, but the mass market, attracted by better service and time saving, soon followed...
During the 19th century, an Anglo-Indian tourist decided to make sketches of some bas-reliefs that were on the wall of Pharaoh Amun-Hotpe's tomb. To save himself hours in the hot, stuffy tomb, he chiseled off the bas-reliefs and took them to his boat. When he had finished his sketches, he simply dropped the priceless stones into the Nile...