Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after his death, Mexican detectives raided his Jasmine suite in the Acapulco penthouse and seized three aides, who had stayed behind to pack furniture and shred files. At week's end the Mexicans charged Hughes Aide Clarence Waldron, 41, with forging Hughes' signature on a Mexican tourist card. The other two were released. Under intense questioning, the aides disclosed that Hughes had been bedridden for years and was too weak to write. He had been unconscious for three days before he was flown to Houston...
...winning image. Instead of being called a "petro capital," it became a "sinking city" when massive oil drilling in the 1950s caused some minor subsidence. For a brief time it attracted the Miss Universe contest, and in 1967 it bought the Queen Mary, which proved disappointing as a tourist hotel...
...road from Loyal Park to White Sox stadium had first taken Varney to such tourist traps as Ashville, N.C., Tucson, Ariz., and Des Moines, Iowa. After having received his masters degree in minor league baseball, Varney earned a spot with the big boys...
...free use of the Tabernacle, the famed meetinghouse built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait outside), no toilet facilities and no upholstery upon its hardwood benches. Its acoustics are very tricky: a tourist standing 200 feet away can hear a pin drop on stage, but the echo from the vaulted ceiling can be so bad that a new drummer once played the entire Ravel Bolero four beats late. The new arts center will be ready...
...Hampshire's quadrennial tourist boom that ended Tuesday produced more nays than yeas...