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...stopped at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station to send more troops off to Viet Nam, Herb showed up in the stands just to look over the President, the likely opposition for Nixon, who was gearing up to go again. Herb wrangled a handshake with L.B.J. like any tickled tourist, wished the President good luck and went off with a smile...
...good many Americans appear to distrust their own currency, and fear that foreigners will not accept it. The U.S. offices of Perera Co. Inc., money dealers, are thronged with tourists seeking to buy foreign money, or traveler's checks denominated in ten foreign currencies, before they go overseas. They worry that if they take dollars, the price in foreign money will sink farther before they reach their destinations. Nicholas Deak, head of Deak & Co. Inc., which owns the Perera offices, wonders how Perera's staff will get through the summer. "They are already exhausted, and the peak tourist...
...testament as an artist. The show bears signs of haste. The installation is confused, the catalogue scrappy, and its preface, by Rene Char, is a tangle of the glutinous verbiage that some French poets exude like silkworms when in the Spanish presence. Nevertheless, the exhibition will certainly be a tourist success. These are, after all, the last Picassos. They are also the worst. It seems hardly imaginable that so great a painter could have whipped off, even in old age, such hasty and superficial doodles. One enters in homage and leaves in embarrassment...
...becomes unwillingly involved with the struggles of a Russian writer. Presented with the challenge of smuggling the Russian's forbidden stories out of the country, the American can respond only with fear and irritation. He wants to be left alone to lick the froth off the attractions of a tourist's Russia and to work out the personal problems he has tried to leave behind in America. "Like Isaac Babel, 'I am master of the genre of silence,'" the Russian sighs, but he is confronted only with the paranoiac hedging of the tourist, and the knowledge that he will never...
Some South Koreans, however, are disturbed by the fact that their country seems to be turning into Japan's bordello. An American tourist, shoved around at Kimpo Airport by a mass of eager arrivals from Tokyo, asked...