Word: wanderlied
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...Americans, the summer's travel will be a relatively short-range junket to Canada's Expo 67, the greatest show on earth this year. But for the millions more who want to wander farther afield, there is encouraging news that abroad better basic accommodations, more imaginative frills and a warmer welcome await them...
Like Odysseus, Greek Shipping Millionaire Aristotle Onassis, 60, seems compelled to wander endlessly over the wine-dark sea. At least his raft is pretty comfortable. And so is the company. This time Ari and his constant companion, Maria Callas, 43, drifted into Nassau harbor aboard Onassis' 325-ft., $3,000,000 yacht Christina, a magnificent barge that comes equipped with its own twin-engined seaplane, swimming pool and crew of 50. After posing in the rosy-fingered dawn for a photographer from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, the wanderers steamed off toward Palm Beach...
...such as the use of the House gym and swimming pool. The three gals marched into the director's office to sign up for a new calisthenics class, quickly had Botts "turning red, blue and pink," according to Catherine, as he tried to explain that sometimes the gentlemen wander around the locker room naked...
...proof, she offers the story of Meyer Benjamin Meyer and his only crony, Mendel Berg. Middle-aged and resolutely unglamorous, they cower behind their jobs as history professors, publishing judgments on the past, but utterly unable to embrace the present. They wander aimlessly through the narrow corridors of New York universities and the narrow-minded cocktail parties of the city...
...their vegetable soup by Negro servants in white coats and black bow ties. A servant calls a club man "Mr. Bradley," and a club man calls a servant "Thomas." After dinner, the club men retire to their walnut-panelled parlor to talk, smoke cigars and sip coffee. Then they wander off to the billiard tables downstairs or to the studies and library upstairs. Everything is refined and muted and comfortable...