Word: visas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Albtourist in the other satellite countries since Albania's quarrel with Khrushchev. Albtourist has even hopefully sent its tourist folders to a small West German travel agency in Cologne. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr decided to apply as a tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
...tried to get a visa to China, you know very well what the reply would...
...railroads today would far rather haul freight than people-and they show it. But things are different in the rest of the world. Though the glamorous Orient Express, beloved by mystery writers, has been curtailed because of international red tape and visa requirements, the luxury train still belongs to the European way of life. Latest and best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation...
Purrs & Grumbles. Prodding by U.S. Travel Service Director Voit Gilmore has cut visa-getting time, an old bugaboo for U.S.-bound tourists. (Says one ad: "You'll have your visa in just 20 minutes.") And in another ad a picture of a fountain pen is captioned: "This is all you need to register at any hotel, motel or inn anywhere in the U.S.A." (In most of Europe, passports must be presented at hotel desks.) But one poster showing an impressive aerial view of one of Los Angeles' clover-leafs had an unhappy effect. In Britain, the reaction...
Though it is too early to tell if the USTS campaign is responsible, the U.S. embassy in London reports that visa applications for the first four months of this year are 20% over last year's. But the British press has been hitting the campaign hard for inaccurate presentation of travel costs. The first series of ads to appear in Great Britain assured: "Expenses for a party of four traveling by car come to less than ?4 (about $11) a day. That includes food, sightseeing and lodging in motels with swimming pools." The second series discreetly added the word...