Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station to send more troops off to Viet Nam, Herb showed up in the stands just to look over the President, the likely opposition for Nixon, who was gearing up to go again. Herb wrangled a handshake with L.B.J. like any tickled tourist, wished the President good luck and went off with a smile...
...becomes unwillingly involved with the struggles of a Russian writer. Presented with the challenge of smuggling the Russian's forbidden stories out of the country, the American can respond only with fear and irritation. He wants to be left alone to lick the froth off the attractions of a tourist's Russia and to work out the personal problems he has tried to leave behind in America. "Like Isaac Babel, 'I am master of the genre of silence,'" the Russian sighs, but he is confronted only with the paranoiac hedging of the tourist, and the knowledge that he will never...
...HEARD ABOUT IT, NOW GO SEE IT, reads the slogan on an Air Vietnam tourist poster showing a fetching maiden in a pink ao-dai. For any American who feels he has not seen enough of the place, about $2,000 will buy him round-trip transportation, a room in the best hotels and a generous sampling of Viet Nam's cuisine...
...shovels, mining pans and how-to pamphlets. One Seattle manufacturer of portable metal-detection devices reports that so far this month sales to amateur and professional gold prospectors have increased 150%. "Literally thousands of people are coming through our office asking directions to the gold fields," says Will Summers, tourist director of California's Amador County. "Sometimes I think I'm back in the 1880s...
Some South Koreans, however, are disturbed by the fact that their country seems to be turning into Japan's bordello. An American tourist, shoved around at Kimpo Airport by a mass of eager arrivals from Tokyo, asked...