Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time graduating seniors return for their fifth reunion, at least two highrise buildings will tower over the Square. Over a million tourists a year will be visiting the Kennedy Library on the 11-acre MBTA site across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Streets will have been rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will have fled before an onslaught of hotels, tourist shops, and hamburger stands. Parking facilities will be swamped, and construction of an MBTA Redline extension, out to the Fresh Pond shopping center, will be underway...
...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...
...most extreme and violent dissidents have set up headquarters in Sweden. Croatian terrorists assassinated the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm last year, claimed responsibility for blowing up a Belgrade-bound airliner and a train headed for Zagreb in January, and planted a bomb at the Yugoslav tourist office in the Swedish capital in March. Swedish tourists have begun to shun Yugoslavia, particularly after one group promised to plant more bombs on planes flying to Belgrade this summer...
...sense, his motives no longer matter. The damage is done, and, according to the Vatican's optimistic experts, it can be repaired. No tourist looking at the Pieta in the future-through a prophylactic wall of reinforced glass -will be able to see the traces of restoration. But another supreme product of man's spirit will have become more distant, less intelligible...
...Italian government cannot even keep the 75 acres of the Roman Forum fully opened. There is a staff of 40 custodians, but with holidays and sick leave it often happens that only four or five guards are left to patrol the whole area at the height of the tourist season. The superintendent of antiquities-who is in charge of the Forum, the Palatine, the Colosseum, and the Baths of Diocletian and Caracalla-has a diminutive annual budget...