Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Located on the western end of the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge leading to the resort Campobello Island, Canada, Lubec nonetheless gets little tourist trade. The local drugstore, on the second block of the four-block-long main street, does carry a few postcards of Campobello--"FDR's summer home"--but novelty items are absent from the shelves. It's a poor community with many problems...
...Parking--It is unlikely that Cambridge can absorb over a thousand tourist cars during peak summer days, especially when the municipal spaces now on the library site are lost to construction. The cars will overflow onto the city's streets, where parking spaces are already severly limited...
...solution to these problems is to separate the museum from the rest of the complex, eliminating the major tourist attraction while retaining the archives, Institute of Politics and School of Government. In an atmosphere of academic research, the garish elements of a tourist haven capitalizing on the memory of an assassinated president would be grossly inappropriate. Kennedy had a strong affection for Harvard and Cambridge and he would not have wanted the library to dramatically change the nature of the Square and alienate the community...
Without publicizing the fact, the grandly misnamed Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco (S.B.M.),* the company that runs the casino and most of the other tourist haunts in the tiny principality of Monaco, has removed the ceiling for some of the casino's best-heeled aficionados...
...tourist buses are parked next to the lords' Rolls-Royces. Nearly 500,000 persons visited the casino during the year. Ardent gamblers from Italy make up one-fourth of the clientele, but S.B.M. is trying to draw more affluent tourists from Germany, Spain and Britain. Near the casino, where pigeon-shooting grounds were located until Rainier's princess gave the coup de Grace to the cruel sport, S.B.M. is building a big convention center. Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money...