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...take it?' Sometimes people would run, and sometimes they'd stay still," recounted Julie Nixon Eisenhower, describing her first stab at photography during a twelve-day visit to China earlier this month. "I'm not a professional photographer, just a tourist," cautioned Julie, who still managed to click off 288 vacation snaps, including some respectable photos of Husband David atop a stone camel at the Ming Tombs. Lest Julie's amateur shutterbugging go awry, Chinese photographers accompanied the couple and presented them with a record of their trip. One other gift was included-a surprise 63rd...
...which lies at the mountain's base. While there is little chance that the town will suffer the fate of ancient Pompeii, the U.S. Forest Service has been forced to close surrounding areas to hikers, campers and skiers, and has thus driven away much of the tourist trade that the town depends upon for its livelihood...
...going to create a new kind of vacationer," says a Midwestern tour operator. Agrees a Boston holiday wholesaler: "This is the future of travel for the masses." The development that has injected such enthusiasm into the recession-hit tourist business is known in industry jabberwocky as O.T.C., meaning one-stop inclusive tour charter. For the tourist, the initials could well stand for OffToCamelot...
While I was enjoying the sun of the South Pacific islands (as lecturer not tourist) in late November and while out of Cambridge again in mid-December the Crimson carried two items which require comment. In the Nov 25 Crimson Peter Hardie informs us that admitting a Negro to Harvard is equivalent to offering poisoned water to a thirsty man. In the December 15 Crimson this twisted fringe of the new ethnicity thrust in American life gains another supporter in the person of Hope Reisman, who insists that her Jewish identity is gravely offended by Christians who celebrate Christ...
...ultimate shudder, rumored to be offered by a West Coast travel agency, is a $4,000 shark special to Australia that climaxes when the tourist is lowered into the ocean in a steel cage, which then is supposedly attacked by a slavering great white...