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...CENTURY after the Union Army turned back General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, the little southeast Pennsylvania town has degenerated into a tourist trap. Fried-chicken stands, ice cream palaces and motels clutter the surroundings of what Lincoln called consecrated ground. Two years ago, Maryland Entrepreneur Thomas Ottenstein announced plans to erect the most garish attraction yet: a modernistic 307-ft. observation tower overlooking the battleground, complete with $750,000 worth of audio-visual equipment to provide what Ottenstein calls a "classroom...
...Games' setting, European Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum spent more than two weeks in Munich last month. Birnbaum, whose first trip to the city was under far less pleasurable circumstances-as a member of an Eighth Air Force B-17 bomber crew during World War II-returned now as a tourist and talked at length to businessmen, artists, actresses, politicians and students. His impressions provide ambience and a vicarious sensation of a city that for 16 days will be the sports capital of the world...
...sales: $18 million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman's fortune is estimated to be $10 million...
...which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade...
...India and Pakistan, Connally made a point of praising the "high statesmanship" of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in their efforts to ease current strains, but there was no sign of a thaw in U.S.-India relations. From Pakistan, the magical mystery tourist flew on to a meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome, then back...