Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotels to help visitors find their way around and provided tours of the city. One of the biggest attractions for the Republican delegates: the Harry S. Truman Library and gravesite in nearby Independence, which drew 2,700 sightseers on the first day of the convention. Other features of the tourist route: the Nelson Gallery of Art (also the scene of an enormous 1,500-guest reception attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller the evening before the convention began); the Mission Hills district, straddling the Missouri-Kansas border, where $250,000 mansions abound, built with fortunes based on grain, livestock, chemicals...
...exposed daily to Communist pressures that sporadically explode into major incidents. Although kept alive by massive infusions of money from Bonn, West Berlin is languishing. Once a vibrant citadel, it has acquired a glum and shabby look. Even the famous Kurfurstendamm has only about six blocks of tourist-attracting brightness, and the rest looks run down and dreary...
...American tourist is once again back on the road. Tethered by the recession to their backyards for the past two travel seasons, Americans by the millions are taking to wings and wheels this summer. With both the travel season and the recovery well under way, money in the bank, and the shock of 60?-70? per gal. fuel absorbed and (almost) forgotten, vacationers are swarming to favorite haunts in numbers near-and in some cases well above-prerecession levels. In the process, they are making cash registers whir and credit-card imprinters click from Honolulu to the Outer Hebrides...
...there is hardly a tourist attraction that is not mobbed. Two weeks ago, 16,800 toured the Ford Motor Co.'s 1,200-acre Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich.; attendance there was up 36% over last year. San Francisco's cable cars are jammed, and waits for rides can take 20 minutes. Near Los Angeles, a one-hour wait to tour Universal Studios is not uncommon, and the Sheraton-Universal Hotel is filled to capacity. Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania face a two-hour wait on weekends for one of the 77 guides...
...setting might be a farm or private house, a tourist hotel or a bar in Salisbury, the speaker might be male or female; the accent anything from upper class British to cockney to Greek. Various illustrations were used, though the Kaffir who, with a modern kitchen, nevertheless made a cooking fire on the floor recurred frequently. But the import was always the same, and the speaker white...