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...Street. In New York, Chile's González rode behind a screaming motorcycle escort to his hotel, quickly changed clothes, then headed down Fifth Avenue for a sightseer's Saturday-night saunter. "Marvelous, marvelous," he cried, when he made his way through the after-theater crowd in Times Square...
...plump, periwigged sightseer was too excited to sleep; Edward Gibbon spent his first night in Rome waiting for dawn. When at last it came, Historian Gibbon recalled later, "I trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum...
False Alarm. In Baia, Brazil, Sightseer Erich Steinberg, visiting St. Francis' Church, yanked an innocent-looking handle, started the church bell ringing, called out a long line of monks for unscheduled choir practice...
...Foremost sightseer was a little man in a light brown duster who slipped practically unnoticed into the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Adolf Hitler gazed down at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, another "Little Corporal" whose star had soared to a zenith equaled only by his own before it sputtered and plunged...
...anyone could guess. Less than two miles from North Beach stand the spindling 700-foot Trylon and the great round Perisphere of the New York World's Fair 1939. A thick slice of premium revenue will undoubtedly go to the transportation system that can pick up the sightseer at his home airport and deposit him in the shadow of the World's Fair's Big Apple...