Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tourist Attraction. Yet the Israelis seem more intent on holding onto the Gaza Strip than any other part of their conquered territory, except Jerusalem. They are slowly integrating this arid area into Israel, and impressing on the Arabs the permanence of their presence. The reason: Worthless in every other respect, the Gaza Strip is important to Israel's security, since it probes like a finger into Israeli territory. Egyptian troops massed there before the outbreak of the war, and the Strip had long been a base for Arab terrorist raids...
Black Servant, Brynlimah, Black Prince, Black Gold, Co-Educator, Equipoise, Dark Star, Dark Secret, and-that tourist!-Epinard, Faireno, Kelso, Gallahadion, Jim Dandy, Gallant Fox, Top Flight, Whichone, And one we need not call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand...
Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
James Michener first visited Spain as a chart boy aboard a freighter that hauled oranges from the eastern coast to the marmalade factories of Dundee. In the 35 years since then, he has returned repeatedly, both as a knockabout traveler and a rich tourist. In his book he makes no effort to prettify the country's problems or ignore its faults. As long as Spain remains ruled by the army, the landed families and the church, he sees scant hope of any dramatic social or industrial progress-although he does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent...
...town," says the Chamber of Commerce's Greeley. "This gave us a kick in the pants when we needed it the most." Indeed, Springfield is so kicked up about the success of its program that it has undertaken to raise another $650,000 to buy as a tourist attraction a collection of 11,000 small arms that is said to be the world's biggest and best and is being eyed by the Smithsonian Institution...