Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communications and waste disposal. Near it will rise the World Showcase, a permanent World's Fair. Still another theme park, Oriental Disneyland, now planned to open late in 1979, will border Tokyo Bay in Japan; the Disney people expect it to draw 10 million visitors annually at the tourist hub of Asia. Estimated cost: about $175 million-most to be borne by the Japanese...
...profits have been about as permanent as a jet contrail in a wind-blown sky. Yet last week there was evidence that at least some form of profitability had returned to the nation's eleven major scheduled carriers; it is expected to stay intact through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business travel...
...daughter Anne got back on her horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report from the stadium itself...
Walter Mitty, that henpecked dreamer of great adventures, has been upstaged. His secret life has been researched, developed, costed and packaged for marketing to the tourist trade. Time was when the affluent American was content with touring the capitals...
...becomes as complicated as Edward's mind-and as haunted by ghosts and obsessions. British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...