Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Twice. Now, when Nixon is in town, San Clemente hums with the business of the most powerful nation on earth-and of the camp followers. Camera-laden tourists by the hundreds cruise the once-quiet, mimosa-lined boulevards in the hope of spotting the President. The San Clemente Inn provides maps of the quarter-mile route to the gates of the Western White House, but all the tourist gets is the gates; a grove of palms hides Nixon's offices and home...
...convention center, recently withdrew from the project, after spending $5,500,000. Long Beach officials are now negotiating with a possible replacement, McCulloch Oil Corp., a company with some experience in British hand-me-downs. Two years ago McCulloch bought London Bridge and is reconstructing it as a tourist lure for its new town, Lake Havasu City, on the east bank of the Colorado River. "I still think the project is a good idea," says Long Beach City Manager John Mansell. "There are few births that don't give a little trouble...
...their cholera epidemics after 1964, when the Soviet Union refused to accept shipments of citrus fruits and other goods from cholera-stricken Iran. Both countries now refer only to outbreaks of misleadingly labeled "summer diarrhea." Egyptian authorities have been equally ostrichlike. Fearful of disrupting their country's ailing tourist industry, they have refused to restrict travel and euphemistically describe as "summer disease" what one World Health Organization official estimates to be 3,000 current cases of cholera...
...Christ, I can't imagine," says his friend, Producer Sid Krassman. But soon Sid has wrung three million out of the tourist-starved principality of Liechtenstein to help finance the monstrosity and assured the rest by signing up Angela Sterling, "the highest-paid darling of the silver screen - nailing a cool one and a quarter big ones per pic, plus ten percent of the boxoroonie, going...
...rowdier members of this group can make West Kingston an uncomfortable spot on a Saturday night for a white tourist, or even for an affluent black. A riot two years ago took two lives and caused $2,500,000 in property damage. Now the government nervously bans the works of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Che Guevara, and forbids entry to suspected troublemakers...