Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taking 2½ months off from his job in Binghamton, N.Y., to see the U.S. by train. Steve Singer, a CBS producer, and his friend Judy Wilbur are headed for a vacation in New Orleans, convinced that "this is the way to go." On their first American visit, a young English couple, Donald and Tania Stewart, get off at Greenville to see the Great Smokies. For young voyagers who never rode the old Chiefs and Limiteds, the passage is the message. "Nostalgia," said one, "is for people who ride phony coal burners at Disneyland." (Note for nostalgia freaks: the Crescent...
...first reporters to visit Kolwezi after its liberation was TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. His report...
...Tyre pocket, an area along the coastal plains of southern Lebanon that lies between the Israeli line and the Litani, is under the control of the Palestinians. This became clear when, in response to a request to visit Tyre, a U.N. liaison officer warned: "You could try it, but you might be arrested. They would arrest anyone from Israel." Palestinian troops patrol the pocket, set up roadblocks, question and detain whomever they want. The only way to travel, suggested the U.N. official, was to get rid of anything-papers, money, candy wrappers, that would indicate you were from Israel...
When H.L. Mencken was asked, "Why, if you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, do you continue to live here?" he countered, "Why do people visit zoos...
...want of sympathy and substance. Back in 1942, Critic Alfred Kazin observed that Mencken's "conception of the aesthetic life . . . was monstrous in its frivolity and ignorance." Others soon echoed the critique. Finally, even the subject obliquely acknowledged it. In Six Men, Alistair Cooke recalls a 1955 visit. The invalided Mencken wondered when Poet Edgar Lee Masters had passed on. In 1948, Cooke guessed. "That's right," said Mencken. "I believe he died the year...