Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bermuda he shuns taxicabs and put-puts around on rented motor scooters. In the Virgin Islands he ducks the fancy restaurants and lunches on a sandwich at the beach. In Puerto Rico he chooses a poolside beer over a banana daiquiri. His credentials: an economy-flight air ticket and a fistful of travel-agency coupons. This is the summer tourist. And thrifty though he may be, he is creating a bustling new industry from Bermuda and the Caribbean west to Mexico-a sun belt better known for its winter lures than its summer tours. Says a busy Nassau hotel manager...
...Banana shouldn't prove too slippery a skin for Milton Berle to zip himself into. Gaithersburg, Md.; Devon, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; West Springfield, Mass.; Westbury...
Once known as "banana republics," five small nations of Central America-have a history of bad-neighborliness, with frequent border skirmishes and damaging trade barriers against one another's goods. But they are beginning to learn some important lessons of development through cooperation. Now grouped in a common market barely two years old, the five have lowered the barriers on a list of 1,000 goods ranging from farm products to automobile tires. Internal trade jumped 30% to $43.2 million last year, and new plastics, textile and chemical industries have sprung up to service a market of 11 million...
...Swiss cheese on rye (no mustard) and one banana are his customary lunch, but world-famed Architect Walter Gropius settled for champagne and caviar when some 40 colleagues turned out to surprise him on his 80th birthday. Best surprise of all to the prolific former chairman of Harvard's department of architecture was the appearance of an old crony, Finnish Architect Hugo Alvar Aalto, 65. When the two men were through toasting each other, Gropius opened a letter notifying him of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "Isn't that nice?" he said...
...troops-"Sneaky Petes"-have made dramatic progress in the north by winning over and training the dark-skinned, aboriginal montagnards. Though they have for centuries been victimized by the lowland Vietnamese, who contemptuously call them Moi (savages), 150,000 montagnards now belong to an aggressive, native force. Help for Bananas. Militarily, the decisive factor in the war to date has been the introduction of some 170 U.S.-piloted helicopter transports, which give the government's troops the advantages of surprise and mobility that had hitherto been the guerrillas' monopoly. The antiquated "banana" copters have become increasingly vulnerable...