Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glass of Tequila. Fenton announced that he had indeed planned to rob the Americans, but that the job had been carried out by two local tourist guides. Quickly arrested, they protested innocence. Then came word that the bodies on the beach were those of two unidentified auto-accident victims. In jail Fenton was interviewed by a U.S. newsman, who gave him a glass of tequila to calm his nerves. Fenton broke the glass, slashed his wrists. Mercilessly, police grilled the remorseful travel agent far into the night-until at last he broke down, confessed in full. At week...
...negotiation, will set up seven reciprocal routes between major U.S. and Mexican cities, provide nonstop nights between Mexico City and Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans. The treaty gives each nation right to designate one carrier over each route, will touch off new battles among U.S. airlines seeking rich tourist runs to Mexico City (only U.S. lines now flying into Mexico: Pan American and American...
...victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt's profitable tourist trade has dried up. Nasser's expulsion of British, French and Jewish residents (an estimated total of 30,000 people) and the "Egyptianization" of foreign banks and agencies has resulted in a devastating dislocation of the economy. Nasser still seems to be holding the popularity of the Egyptian masses, whose...
...government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced...
...RATE PESETAS will be sold by Spain to U.S. travelers. To spur foreign tourist trade and combat flourishing black market, the Franco government will let Americans deposit dollars in U.S. banks, pick up pesetas in Spain at rate of 46 to $1 v. current pegged rate of 38.95 per $1. Spain is also considering general devaluation of its weak peseta...