Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiter at Rome's suburban restaurant I Fontanone says that he hopes he will not become a tourist attraction. But Raffaele Minichiello, the U.S. Marine who skyjacked a TWA jet 6,900 miles from California to Italy two years ago, has been getting something of a play in the Italian press with his first job since his release from jail in April. The great thing about the job is being always with people, says Mini, as the papers call him. "I'm very shy, and this is good...
Exaggerated Fears. That effort is a practical response to the fact that Ireland's economic growth has shown some signs of slowing down. Last year the number of tourists dropped 6% from 1969. Says Eamonn Keane, marketing director of the Irish Tourist Board: "The troubles in Northern Ireland have frightened a lot of people." They may also have discouraged some new investment in the Republic. In fact, the fears of tourists and investors are exaggerated: life in the South is still stable, and foreigners are still cosseted. Except for the North, Ireland is a much safer place to live...
...Dulles International Airport, it was simply a routine trip to London. But for Physicist Joseph C. Hafele and his companion, Astronomer Richard Keating, it was the beginning of a journey into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...
This week, after 32 years of restoration, a third of the 400 rooms of the Great Harem, which in the past were rarely seen by any but sultans, concubines and eunuchs, are to be opened as a tourist attraction. The restoration, a labor of love that also serves the political purpose of showing modern Turks the decadence of the old regime, is to continue indefinitely...
Switzerland's travel posters and brochures still stress the majestic mountains and many lakes that over the years have lured millions of summer tourists to the tiny nation. Recently, however, there has been a subtle change in what the tourist literature portrays. While the brochures still contain scenes of happy vacationers strolling near or boating on lakes, some of them no longer show swimmers in the water. Reason: some of the most famous Swiss lakes are now badly polluted...