Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...travels about Europe, figures Soprano Leontyne Price, she must have walked several dozen times through Milan's Piazza della Scala, past the ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched main entrance. She never went in. "I swore," says she, "that I would not enter even as a tourist until I sang there." Last week she entered, singing: at 33 she was making her La Scala debut in Aïda, and the demanding audience recognized almost at once that she would...
...business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...Northeast common stock, if the plan meets the approval of TWA's board, the CAB, stockholders and major creditors. Hughes will also lend $9,500,000 to Northeast from his Hughes Tool Co. to get its six, new, leased Convair 880 jets into operation for the Florida tourist season this winter...
...aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been built at one of the most scenic mountain spots, and the Chinese are even talking of skiing facilities an auto drive away from their tropical coastland...
...carries only 84 passengers first class, or no tourist v. up to 179 for the Boeing and Douglas jets. Its big advantages are speed-some 40 m.p.h. faster than the 707 and the DC-8-and what promises to be impressive economy of operation. Powered by four commercial versions of the General Electric J-jg engine that pushes the Air Force 6-58 Hustler bomber to Mach 2 speeds, the 880 has so much power that even with a full passenger load it needs only 5,800 ft. of runway for take-off (v. 8,000 ft. for bigger jets...