Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Istanbul, a 14-year-old English tourist, Timothy Davey, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on charges of conspiring to sell more than 50 Ibs. of hashish. As a public uproar erupted in Britain, the Turkish embassy in London vainly noted that the schoolboy could have received a much more severe sentence. The outraged British found the Turkish court's heavy-handed treatment of the boy difficult to understand. For centuries, Turkish farmers have grown fields of poppies that have become a prime source of the heroin sold in the U.S. Only last June...
...newsmen and Chinese officials clustered around her, in fact, Mrs. Nixon could have passed as a typical tourist eager to take in as many sights as possible. In her visit to the Summer Palace, a 659-acre complex that was once occupied by the Dowager Empress Tsu Hsi during the Ching Dynasty, she strolled through such exotic edifices as the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, the Hall of Happiness in Longevity, the Hall of Dispelling the Clouds and the Pavilion of the Fragrance of Buddha. Going through the Gate of Longevity and Good Will, she remarked, "That's prophetic...
...only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...
...retired last week from the province's Liberal Party leadership after 23 years of almost absolute power, Smallwood was one of the Western Hemisphere's most benign demagogues and Canada's most entertaining politician. As he often put it: "I'm sort of a tourist attraction...
Despite the luxury-cruise prices, the S.S. France is more streamlined than elegant. In service since 1962, it was designed primarily to carry 500 first-class and 1,500 tourist passengers on Atlantic crossings; closing some of the smaller cabins for the current cruise did not automatically transform it into a one-class luxury liner. Most of the furniture aboard is covered with functional vinyl, and there is no outdoor swimming pool...