Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between meetings, the two Presidents entertained each other at local night clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant fireworks, high-diving exhibitions, exotic Aztec dances, a high-style water-skiing show...
...fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section of the same DC-7B, United Electrical Workers' Boss
...Caribbean's U.S. and British islands, which are both politically and isothermally hospitable, the winter tourist season was at its peak last week, and the peak had never been so high. "Don't even mention Caribbean to me," complained the New York manager of Happiness Tours. "Montego Bay, San Juan, Kingston. St. Thomas-all hopelessly jammed through April...
Power Divided. There was an inevitability about last week's changes, but their suddenness was caused by a moral crisis. The government was at loggerheads over Cuba's tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless...
Macmillan has not seen Russia since a tourist visit in 1929. He hoped to be able to provide the West with a clearer understanding of Soviet intentions. "I will not be going to Moscow to conduct a negotiation," he emphasized, "but something perhaps in the nature of a reconnaissance...