Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where can the man who likes to travel light find a vacation house that he can pack into two suitcases and inflate with a bicycle pump after he arrives at a congenial resort? See MODERN LIVING, Preparing for the Year...
...Farm," as she called it, would be no Fun City. So Mrs. Richard J. Hughes, 46, wife of the New Jersey Governor, checked into Kempner clinic at Duke University Medical Center for a course in dieting. The pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication, a bland diet consisting mostly of rice and a rigorous regimen of exercise...
Tourism is another matter. Nantucket has become a favorite summer resort and tourist attraction. The population jumps to 16,000 in July and August; last summer 200,000 sightseers overran its quaint cobblestone streets and lolled on its beaches. Salty natives sneer that one-day visitors "come with a five-dollar bill and a dirty shirt and change neither." Nevertheless, local businessmen gladly pocket the $20 million a year spent annually on bus trips, postcards and clam chowder. In fact, the tourist trade is growing so rapidly that many "off-islanders," the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic...
...that single holidays regularly rack up the highest highway accident rate of the year. One typical survey showed that a month with a three-day weekend, compared with a month without one, produced a 19% increase in business for an airline and a railroad, a 16% increase for a resort hotel...
...addition to flying the island-hopping routes, Continental will build and operate six small resort hotels. "With our new aircraft and the hotel facilities," says Six, "we'll do some business all right. These islands are important to our Government and important to tourism." They are also important to Six's ambition to have Continental certified as a carrier to the Far East. His bid was turned down last month by a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner. But Six, who is a loyal Democrat and active party fund raiser, hopes that the decision will be reversed by the time...