Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Dorticós, the indefatigable tourist, was unmoved. Everywhere he went he got in a little anti-U.S. propaganda. This led to Washington's angriest note so far to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Citing Dorticós' public declaration in Montevideo that property of U.S. citizens had not been confiscated but was fairly paid for, the Department of State said: "To our knowledge not a single American property owner has been reimbursed." Washington listed eight other instances of Cuba's "intense official campaign of slander" against the U.S., among them Economic Czar "Che" Guevara...
FROM speedy new quadrupod jets and slower prop planes, from fast liners and converted wartime Victory ships, 500,000 Americans will land in Europe this summer in the greatest tourist invasion in history. With curiosity and half a billion in cash, they will wander from the all-night-sun Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, to the stoned isles of the Aegean. Some will tramp through cathedrals, others will look for the high life, and many will exhaust themselves trying to combine some of both. But Americans in Europe in 1960 are in for some surprises...
...Cheapest scheduled flights are on Icelandic Airlines DC-45 and -6s between New York and London ($405.20 round trip). Other bargains: round-trip tickets that allow unlimited stops en route. With a jet flight from New York to Rome on a round-trip economy ticket ($620.30), a tourist can choose stops in 24 cities in eleven countries. Charter flights that require a minimum of 69 people from an organized group (e.g., women's clubs, country clubs, lodges) cost as little as $250 per round trip...
Travel by sea costs 5% to 8% more than last year in all classes (about $604 to $864 for first class, $420 to $467 tourist class round trip). Ship space is almost entirely filled through July 15, but there are some first-class bookings available. On the Continent, a joint 13-nation Eurailpass offers unlimited rail travel, plus rides on ferry boats and steamers on the Rhine, Danube and Swiss lakes, with a single $125 ticket valid for two months. Rail bargains are being offered by Britain and Ireland: a 1,000-mile tourist ticket for $34 first class...
...Louis - whose debts include $1-250,000 in back income taxes-has carried his admiration further and become a paid pressagent for Cuba. With Cuba's $60 million-a-year tourist business off 85% and Havana's luxury hotels deserted, Castro signed a $287,000-a-year contract with a Manhattan all-Negro public relations firm (Joe Louis, vice president) to promote Cuba as a vacation spot for U.S. Negroes. The firm gets a fee of $25,000 a year, plus a 15% commission on advertising, so far has plans to spend $262,000 on contests and convention...