Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Series of Horrors. Often the youthful smugglers are suckers from the start. In Lebanon, tourist guides around Baalbek's famous Roman ruins sidle up to adventurous-looking American kids and sell them not only cheap hash but identical cheap cardboard tourist suitcases to carry it in. Airport customs officials are so familiar with the suitcases that they almost yawn as they arrest the tourists who show up with them...
...resort skiing is part of a carefully designed plan. After World War II it became apparent that, as far as ski areas were concerned, Austria and Switzerland had been exploited to near capacity. Also, by the 1960s the French economy was in difficult straits and the country's tourist industry had tailed off sharply. Then someone in the French Ministry of Tourism finally noticed the Alps just sitting there, beautiful, capacious and unproductive. The rush for white gold...
Determined to snare its share of Puerto Rico's bountiful tourist trade, the new nightclub El Cortijo opened the season in San Juan with 20 flamenco dancers, twelve waiters and two dance combos. Last week, with more than half of its 185 seats empty each night, El Cortijo was down to eight dancers, six waiters and one combo. It also dropped its $5 cover charge...
...slump has sobered many of the tourist magnates. Sam Schweitzer, president of the El San Juan Hotel, says: "Next season we may have to take a tough look at ourselves." If that does not result in lower prices and less gouging, there may be nobody else to look...
...important that we respect the man enough to know that, in the city scenes, he offers more than the simple-minded judgments of Medium Cool and the irritating awe of Demy's The Model Shop. And on the road, we're not dealing with Easy Rider's paranoid tourist mentality...