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...sloping hillside next to shimmering Lake Balaton in western Hungary, acre after acre of multicolored tents stood next to row after row of brightly painted caravans. And above them all, like so many regimental battle flags, pennants fluttered in the summer breeze. Said one slightly awed Western European visitor: "I feel that Charlton Heston should step out of that big blue tent and tell us all to charge...
...cultural shock. Just as Americans resent the outstretched palms of European bellhops and waiters who have already received the compulsory tip added to hotel and restaurant tabs, foreigners in the U.S. cannot easily get the hang of the American freelance system. Another shock comes when a visitor tries, as he sometimes does, to haggle bazaar-style in Saks Fifth Avenue...
...size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies," and the variety of the population-"white, yellow and every shade of black," an Italian visitor noted. Tops among minuses are rude customs officers. Others: slums, dismal trains, violence, plastic flowers, women in hair curlers, "magic ringers" vibrating beds, difficulty in finding information booths and public toilets...
...Riviera or skiing in Switzerland, seek the vacationer's pleasures of summering in New England, fishing the Minnesota lakes, hiking through the California redwoods or luxuriating in a Florida hotel. Anticipating the crush of tourism that is to come, the U.S. must learn to recognize the foreign visitor and make him feel wanted and welcome. It should not be a difficult task for a nation that was built by tourists who came and stayed...
What with weddings, wars and wages on his mind, President Johnson can use a few laughs. That may be why he granted a few minutes to the visitor who had just returned to the U.S. after a 15-day U.S.O. tour in Viet...