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...visa is required but one can obtain it in Vienna within two hours of application (a visa for Czechoslovakia takes at least four days to obtain while a Hungarian visa takes a minimum of eleven). And at the border itself there is little unpleasantness besides the somewhat distrustful air of the guards--no luggage inspection, few questions. In order to accommodate its foreign tourists, the government even furnishes certain national groups noted for their extraordinary capacity to find everything "just a little bit nicer at home in France" with the equipage necessary for their greatest comfort. French visitors, for example...
This border contrasts far more radically with those of Czechoslovakia and Hungary and in matters far more significant than the time it takes to get a visa. Here, the only peculiarity in the alpine scenery is a sort of stone-henge monument celebrating the liberation from the Nazis in 1945. A road to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, on the other hand, will be heavily guarded by soldiers with dogs and by high sentry towers on the other side of the line...
...from abroad. The 450,000 foreigners visiting the U.S. this year are still only a trickle compared with the flood of 2,000,000 Americans who will wander over foreign countries, but tourism from abroad shows every sign of increasing. Foreigners still bitterly complain of the U.S.'s visa restrictions (no countries in Western Europe have them) and the embarrassing questions asked them by customs officials. "One of them asked me my sexual proclivities." says one French student. "I didn't know if it was a question or a proposition, so I got out of there as quickly...
...gradually the U.S. is beginning to beckon foreigners. Last week President Kennedy signed into law a bill establishing a U.S. Travel Service that will offer advice on places to visit, speed up entry and visa procedures. U.S. airlines are pushing for more low-fare package tours: the Flying Tiger Line offers a $99 round-trip excursion air fare between Europe and the U.S. for Europeans only...
Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope...