Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city over which Christ will reign in the person of the Archangel Melchizedek. Not quite the Christ of the New Testament, though: typifying their syncretistic beliefs, the Stelle members believe that Christ borrowed Jesus' body for his earthly sojourn, and that Jesus was a sort of theological tourist, who studied with Brahmins in India, Buddhists in Nepal and sages in Persia...
Greece also is getting a kind of fallout from the general prosperity of Western Europe, which has increased the nation's tourist revenues and the remittances sent home by Greeks working abroad. The Papadopoulos government has persuaded Greeks to put the money to work within their own country, partly by dampening dissent-Greek businessmen need not fear strikes-and partly by promotional schemes, including a campaign to get Greeks to invest their savings in the local stock market. A building boom has followed, and tens of thousands of Greeks have begun returning from West Germany, Canada...
Baseballs. Actually, there are enough attractions within Port-au-Prince to occupy tourists for the good part of a week. In the well-to-do Lyles district, there are the remarkable Victorian gingerbread houses, with intricately carved balustrades and spires, that are now commanding Stateside real estate prices. At the Iron Market, beneath a twin-spired iron roof, hundreds of Haitian entrepreneurs haggle with tourists over the price of wood carvings, sisal mats, dolls and hundreds of other products displayed in crowded stalls. There is the formal city hall, outlined at night with strings of glowing light bulbs...
Although Haiti is an exotic and unique vacation land, there are signs of change. Outside money, particularly in tourist-related businesses such as ho-telbuilding, is coming into the country at the rate of $60 million a year. In the most ambitious of the new proj ects, the island of Tortuga, off the northern coast, is being developed into a resort that will include 13 hotels, condominiums, private homes and a large airport. There are also a number of heady proposals to build expensive new roads to Haiti's southshore beaches, which are as beautiful...
...short account of just what this man does during the year. We find that he follows the sun to Palm Beach during the winter months, follows the sun to Pine Valley during the spring months, follows the shade to Camden, Maine, during the summer months, and follows the tourist guides in Europe during the cool months of autumn, And he always has. Does it pay this man to have his name adorn the divers mastheads of so many different companies? Certainly! He collects five dollars here, one thousand dollars there, fifty thousand dollars for the privilege of lending his rubber...