Word: vips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe; the rest of the Fielding five-foot shelf (he is his own publisher) includes a European shopping guide, time and currency converters and a guidebook to the Caribbean. Temp operates Temple Fielding's Epicure Club ?which, for $15.50 a year, guarantees the insecure traveler a somewhat phony VIP welcome at any of 29 top European restaurants, plus free cocktails for two. Other business deals are in the offing, including a possible U.S. television series on travel, to be hosted by himself. All of this earns Fielding a yearly income that is over $100,000, and climbing...
...last week's maiden transatlantic crossing of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (oneway fares: $490 to $3,000), the VIP list read like a page from the London telephone directory and the formal wear was mostly rented. Newspaper reporters divided their attention between F.D.R.'s youngest son John and a passenger notable chiefly for having made 22 previous crossings. Desperately, they wove vignettes from such unpromising material as the pet white mouse in a first-class stateroom, the ship's minor collision with a whale, and a vicar selling oak trees to reforest Sherwood Forest. With the weather...
Even a tourist-class guidebook-the kind written in hoked-up feature writer's prose-furnishes vicarious travel. Letters from Iceland is a first-class VIP travel book written by two poets; it provides not only the usual armchair transport but also a vicarious voyage into the past...
...Berliner" speech from the city hall steps in the spring of 1963. It will be a difficult act to follow. U.S. and German planners have scheduled Nixon's principal speech before solidly pro-American workers at the Siemens electrical factory. There was talk of dropping the now routine VIP tour of the Wall, but with the Soviets and East Germans tightening their squeeze on the city, the propaganda value of a stop at the East-West border overcame all objections...
...that they may avoid a crash landing a little later." (Some of the wives dutifully took notes.) Meanwhile, Luci Johnson Nugent started her opposite number, Tricia Nixon, and an entourage of 33 children aged six to 27-all of them offspring of the incoming Cabinet-off on a VIP tour of Washington that included lunch in the Capitol on the Senate dining room's famed bean soup. The venerable House doorkeeper, William ("Fishbait") Miller, drawled to ten-year-old Jim Hardin: "Your daddy is Secretary of Interior." "Nope," said young Hardin firmly. "Agriculture...