Word: wanderluster
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...Frankfurt bankers, who make their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust. Travel bureaus now offer all-inclusive air tours to Rhodes, the Canary Islands, Sicily, the Soviet Union and even a special round trip to Communist China. French and Italian tourist bureaus advertise regularly in German newspapers...
Morocco's touring King Mohammed V, eager to see all he could of the U.S. in 16 days, almost had reason to regret his wanderlust, so rapidly was he whisked hither and yon. At Disneyland, the King successfully took the throttle of the locomotive that draws a miniature 1890-style train around the park. While in Texas, Mohammed decided to summon his four daughters-Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped...
John B. O'Connor, 57, is a man smitten by wanderlust. In twelve years as executive vice president of Dresser Industries, one of the world's biggest oil equipment and service companies (annual sales of $225 million), Oilman O'Connor logs more than 100,000 miles a year helping run Dresser's eleven subsidiaries spread over eleven states and nine foreign countries. Recently the oil industry's Nomads Club voted him "the world's most-traveled executive." Last week Traveler O'Connor made one of the most important moves of his career...
TRAILER DWELLERS now number 3,000,000 in U.S., and "mobilehome" builders expect 1956 sales to go up 15% over last year's record $435 million. Reasons for the large jump: more livable trailers (air conditioning, built-in bars, etc.), high rents, national wanderlust...
...ended up in Saipan as a private, first class, with the U.S. Army Air Forces, painted murals for the enlisted men's clubhouse, and cheesecake figures (at $50 apiece) on the noses of B-29s. But even the Army failed to cure Cloar's wanderlust. Out of uniform, he took off for Mexico and South America, then on to Europe...