Word: gambia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gambia's Prime Minister, Sir Dawda Jawara, K.B., had peered out a window of his seaside residence a few days ago, he would have seen a fat, nude 75-year-old Swede standing on his head. Shocking? Not a bit, for over the past four years the residents of this tiny West African nation have shrugged off the sight of Swedes-nude or clothed -who each winter desert their frosty homeland for a gambol on Gambia's beautiful white sand beaches. As a travel brochure puts it: "If you like, you can swim nude alone-so huge...
Nudism may have its perils, but it has proved a gold mine for Swedish tour operators and for Gambia too. Every two weeks, from November through April, a chartered 707 swoops into Yundum International Airport, disgorges 150 pink newcomers, and then hauls 150 bronzed Scandinavians back to icy Stockholm. At Yundum's terminal, things get hectic, for the building is only 40 feet by 20 feet. Still, officials of Gambia Airways (which has clerks and baggage handlers but flies no aircraft) cope magnificently. Once tucked into one of Gambia's three hotels, the tourists head for the beaches...