Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Games' setting, European Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum spent more than two weeks in Munich last month. Birnbaum, whose first trip to the city was under far less pleasurable circumstances-as a member of an Eighth Air Force B-17 bomber crew during World War II-returned now as a tourist and talked at length to businessmen, artists, actresses, politicians and students. His impressions provide ambience and a vicarious sensation of a city that for 16 days will be the sports capital of the world...
...which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade...
...India and Pakistan, Connally made a point of praising the "high statesmanship" of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in their efforts to ease current strains, but there was no sign of a thaw in U.S.-India relations. From Pakistan, the magical mystery tourist flew on to a meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome, then back...
...monkeys proved such a tourist attraction that in the next decade some 30 other Japanese cities opened similar parks. There have always been a certain number of macaque monkeys hiding in the forests of Japan, but those forests are steadily being cut down, and it proved easy to lure the monkeys into parks by establishing feeding stations close to city outskirts. As the animals took to their new habitats they also became bolder-and they kept multiplying. Now there are some 50,000 of them, and they have become a national nuisance...
...much of the local flavor has made way for Baskin Robbins's 31 Flavors and other nation-wide chains. The impending John F. Kennedy Library Center on Boylston St. in the present MBTA yard will further transform the Harvard Square area in the next five years. Over a million tourists a year are expected to visit the Kennedy Library. Undoubtedly, streets will have to be rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will flee before an onslaught of hotels, tourist shops and hamburger joints...